Lixa productalis

Lixa productalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Lixa
Walker, 1866
Species: L. productalis
Binomial name
Lixa productalis
Walker, 1865
Synonyms
  • Hypsopygia productalis
  • Herculia productalis

Lixa is a genus of snout moths. It contains only one species, Lixa productalis, which is found on Borneo[1][2] and Taiwan.[3]

Adult males are reddish-fawn speckled with black. There is a black line which extends from the tip of the forewing to two-thirds of the length of the interior border of the hindwings.[4]

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