Leto venus
| Leto | |
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| Leto venus illustration in Uitlandsche kapellen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | Leto Hübner, 1820 |
| Species: | L. venus |
| Binomial name | |
| Leto venus (Cramer, 1780)[1] | |
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Leto is a monotypic moth genus of the family Hepialidae. The only described species is L. venus which is endemic to South Africa. The larval food plant is Virgilia.
References
- ↑ Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera)
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