Loxmaionia
| Loxmaionia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Tribe: | Margaroniini |
| Genus: | Loxmaionia Schaus, 1913[1] |
| Species: | L. megale
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| Binomial name | |
| Loxmaionia megale Schaus, 1913
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Loxmaionia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Loxmaionia megale, which is found in Costa Rica.
The wingspan is about 49 mm. The forewings are dark greyish brown with interrupted basal and antemedial whitish lines. There is a small white spot in the cell medially and a similar short streak below the cell, as well as an oblique whitish line on the discocellular and an interrupted line below it to the inner margin. The hindwings are semihyaline white with a fuscous-grey shade on the inner margin.[2]
References
- ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
- ^ New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica, XX