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Ashinaga

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Ashinaga
Ashinaga longimana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Genus: Ashinaga
Matsumura, 1929
Synonyms
  • Aeolarcha Meyrick, 1931

Ashinaga is a genus of moths in the family Oecophoridae.

Species

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Taxonomy

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The genus was previously assigned to its own family, Ashinagaidae. Later, it was assigned to the subfamilies Chimabachinae as well as Stathmopodinae until it was finally placed in the Oecophoridae.[1]

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