Lemaireia

Lemaireia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Saturniidae
Genus: Lemaireia
Nässig & Holloway, 1987
Species

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Lemaireia is a genus of moths from the Saturniidae family, commonly known as Moon moths.

Small Oriental genus consisting of 8 orange-marked yellow species, reviewed by Nassig & Holloway (in press). Diagnostic features are: uniformity, rather than asymmetry, of the rings of the ocelli; an undivided, dorsally domed uncus in the male genitalia; a short broad aedeagus with two apical fields of scobination, and a densely and robustly scobinate apex to the conical vesica; strong pouches lateral to the ostium in the female genitalia; a signum consisting of a single spine in the bursa copulatrix.

Species

  • Lemaireia chrysopeplus (Toxopeus, 1940)
  • Lemaireia hainana Naessig & Wang, 2006
  • Lemaireia inexpectata Naessig, 1996
  • Lemaireia loepoides (Butler, 1880)
  • Lemaireia luteopeplus Naessig & Holloway, 1988
  • Lemaireia naessigi Brechlin, 2001
  • Lemaireia schintlmeisteri Naessig & Lampe, 1989

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