''Lemonia pia'' is a moth in the family
Brahmaeidae
Brahmaeidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, ...
(older classifications placed it in Lemoniidae). It was described by
Rudolf Püngeler
Rudolf Püngeler (15 February 1857 – 1 February 1927) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
He was a district court lawyer in Aachen.
Püngeler described very many new species and named ten new Genus, genera of moths/r ...
in 1902.
Subspecies
* ''Lemonia pia friedeli''
Witt, 1979
* ''Lemonia pia pia''
References
Brahmaeidae
Moths described in 1902
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