''Acmanthina'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s belonging to the family
Tortricidae and tribe
Euliini
The Euliini are a tribe of tortrix moths.
Distribution
Most Euliini (nearly 98%) are found in the Neotropics and a small number is found in the Nearctic. Only '' Eulia'' is found in the Old World, since it has a Holarctic
The Holarctic realm ...
. Within Euliini, it is part of the ''
Bonagota'' group of closely related genera, alongside ''
Apotomops'', ''Bonagota'', ''
Haemateulia'' and ''
Ptychocroca''.
The name of the genus is derived from the
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
of its type species, ''
Acmanthina acmanthes''.
Species
*''
Acmanthina acmanthes''
(Meyrick, 1931)
*''
Acmanthina albipuncta''
Brown, 2000
*''
Acmanthina molinana''
Razowski & Pelz, 2010
Notes and references
* , 2005, ''World Catalogue of Insects'' 5
* 2010: Tortricidae from Chile (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). ''Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologia'' 38 (149): 5-55.
External links
tortricidae.com
Euliini
Tortricidae genera
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