Amydria anceps
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tineidae |
Genus: | Amydria |
Species: | A. anceps
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Binomial name | |
Amydria anceps Walsingham, 1914
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Amydria anceps is a moth of the family Acrolophidae. It is found in Mexico.[1]
It is unusual in that its caterpillars actually eat the fungus cultivated by leaf-cutter ants, Atta mexicana. [2]
References
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Amydria anceps". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
- ^ Lees, David C; Zilli, Alberto (2019). Moths: their biology, diversity and evolution. London: Natural History Museum, London. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-565-09457-7. OCLC 1065351569.
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