Lixa productalis

Lixa productalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Lixa
Walker, 1866
Species: L. productalis
Binomial name
Lixa productalis
Walker, 1865
Synonyms
  • Hypsopygia productalis
  • Herculia productalis

Lixa is a genus of snout moths. It contains only one species, Lixa productalis, which is found on Borneo[1][2] and Taiwan.[3]

Adult males are reddish-fawn speckled with black. There is a black line which extends from the tip of the forewing to two-thirds of the length of the interior border of the hindwings.[4]

Subspecies

  • Lixa productalis productalis (Borneo)
  • Lixa productalis taiwana Heppner, 2005 (Taiwan)

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Herculia productalis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Digital Moths of Asia
  3. ↑ gaga.biodiv.tw
  4. ↑ List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum


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