Neotheora chiloides | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Neotheoridae |
Genus: |
Neotheora Kristensen, 1978 |
Species: | N. chiloides |
Binomial name | |
Neotheora chiloides Kristensen, 1978 |
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Diversity | |
1 species |
Neotheoridae, or Amazonian primitive ghost moths, is a primitive family of insects in the lepidopteran order containing a single genus and species, Neotheora chiloides.
Neotheora chiloides is known from a single female collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil (Kristensen, 1999: 60; Nielsen et al., 2000).