Melathrix
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pyralidae |
Subfamily: | Phycitinae |
Genus: | Melathrix Ragonot, 1893 |
Species: | M. praetextella
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Binomial name | |
Melathrix praetextella (Christoph, 1877)
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Melathrix is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1893. Its only species, Melathrix praetextella, was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1877,[1] originally under the genus Pempelia, but was subsequently moved to Melathrix by Ragonot. It is known from Turkmenistan (including Krasnowodsk, the type location).
References
[edit]- ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-09-29.