Lineodes

Lineodes is a genus of snout moths of the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Achille Guenée in 1854, with Lineodes hieroglyphalis as the type species.

Lineodes
Lineodes integra
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Tribe: Lineodini
Genus: Lineodes
Guenée, 1854
Synonyms
  • Ciraphorus Dyar, 1910
  • Scoptonoma Zeller, 1873

The genus is mostly Neotropical and southern Nearctic in distribution (with the exception of Lineodes longipes, described from Sumatra) and currently comprises 38 species.

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