Lampronia
| Lampronia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Prodoxidae |
| Genus: | Lampronia Stephens, 1829 |
Lampronia is a genus of moths of the Prodoxidae family.
Diversity
The genus has a Holarctic distribution and contains about 25 described species. There are additional undescribed species in North America, Japan and Iran.
Description
Adults are medium-sized and have a golden or dark ground color, although some are unicolored. The forewings usually have white or yellowish spots.
Biology
Most species are day-flying.
Lampronia corticella and Lampronia capitella are minor pests on Rubus idaea and Ribes species.
Species
- Subgenus Lampronia
- Lampronia aeneella
- Lampronia aeripennella
- Lampronia altaica
- Lampronia argillella
- Lampronia capitella
- Lampronia corticella
- Lampronia flavimitrella
- Lampronia fuscatella
- Lampronia intermediella
- Lampronia luzella
- Lampronia morosa
- Lampronia novempunctata
- Lampronia oregonella
- Lampronia provectella (syn: Lampronia triangulifera)
- Lampronia psychidella
- Lampronia pubicornis
- Lampronia quinquepunctata
- Lampronia redimitella
- Lampronia rupella
- Lampronia russatella
- Lampronia sakhalinella
- Lampronia splendidella
- Lampronia standfussiella
- Lampronia stangei
- Lampronia taylorella
- Subgenus Tanysaccus Davis, 1978