Lemonia

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
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Bombycoidea

Familia: Brahmaeidae
Genus: Lemonia
Species: L. balcanica – L. ballioni – L. beirutica – L. dumi – L. pauli – L. peilei – L. philopalus – L. pia – L. ponticus – L. sacrosancta – L. sardanapalus – L. strigata – L. syriensis – L. tamara – L. taraxaci – L. vallantini
Name

Lemonia Hübner, [1820] 1816

Type species: Bombyx taraxaci Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 by monotypy.

References

Antoshin, D.A. & V.V. Zolotuhin, 2011: Lemonia strigata Rougeot et Viette, 1978, stat. n. and L. ballioni (Christoph, 1888) (Lepidoptera: Lemoniidae) in a fauna of Europe with taxonomic notes on related species and description of a new subspecies. Eversmannia 25/26: 9–24.
Antoshin, D.A. & Zolotuhin, V.V. 2013. Taxonomic remarks on the Lemoniidae (Lepidoptera) with description of a new species from Iran. Tinea 22(3): 168–174. Reference page.
Daniel, F. 1953: Neue Heterocera-Arten und -Formen. Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 43: 252–261. Full article. Reference page.
Daniel, F., 1965: Lemonia beirutica sp.n. (Lep. Lemoniidae). Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 50: 74. Full article: [1].
Zolotuhin, V.V. ; E.A. Didmanidze & V.A. Petrov, 2011: A list of Bombycidae, Saturniidae, Lemoniidae and Brahmaeidae of Georgia and neighbouring countries (Lepidoptera). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 67: 63–72.'

Lemonia is a genus of moths in the family Brahmaeidae (older classifications placed it in Lemoniidae.[1]
Species
A caterpillar of Lemonia sp.

Lemonia balcanica (Herrich-Schäffer, 1847)
Lemonia ballioni (Christoph, 1888)
Lemonia beirutica Daniel, 1965
Lemonia dumi (Linnaeus, 1761)
Lemonia pauli Staudinger, 1894
Lemonia peilei Rothschild, 1921
Lemonia peilei farsica Wiltshire, 1946
Lemonia peilei klapperichi Wiltshire, 1961 (Turkmenistan)
Lemonia peilei peilei
Lemonia peilei talhouki Wiltshire, 1952
Lemonia philopalus Donzel, 1842
Lemonia pia Püngeler, 1902
Lemonia pia friedeli Witt, 1979
Lemonia pia pia
Lemonia ponticus (Aurivillius, 1894)
Lemonia sacrosancta Püngeler, 1902
Lemonia sardanapalus Staudinger, 1887 (Turkmenistan)
Lemonia strigata Rebel, 1910
Lemonia taraxaci (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Lemonia vallantini Oberthür, 1890

References

Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236