Almonia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Pyraloidea

Familia: Crambidae
Subfamilia: Acentropinae
Genus: Almonia
Species:
Name

Almonia Walker, 1866

Type species: Almonia onustalis Walker, 1866, by monotypy

Almonia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

Classification

The Crambidae are the grass moth family of (butterflies and moths).[1] They are quite variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass-stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies include brightly colored and patterned insects which rest in wing-spread attitudes.

In many classifications, the Crambidae have been treated as a subfamily of the Pyralidae or snout-moths. The principal difference is a structure in the ears called the praecinctorium, which joins two tympanic membranes in the Crambidae, and is absent from the Pyralidae. It would seem to be a matter of personal opinion (therefore not susceptible to definitive decision) whether this distinction merits division into two families, or whether the common presence of ventrally-located ears should unify them into one family. The latest review by Munroe & Solis, in Kristensen (1999) retains the Crambidae as a full family.[2]
Species

Almonia atratalis Rothschild, 1915
Almonia truncatalis Walker, [1866][3]

Former species

Almonia cristata (Hampson, 1891)
Almonia lobipennis (Moore, 1886)

References

"Family Crambidae". ZipCodeZoo. Archived from the original on 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
Kükenthal, Willy (3 December 1998). Munroe, E., & Solis, M.A. (1999). "The Pyraloidea" in Lepidoptera: Moths & Butterflies by N.P. Kristensen. 233-256. ISBN 9783110157048. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
"GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-10-11.