Amydria anceps
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Genus: | Amydria |
| Species: | A. anceps
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| Amydria anceps Walsingham, 1914
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Amydria anceps is a moth of the family Acrolophidae. It is found in Mexico.[1]
It is unusual in that its caterpillars actually eat the discarded fungus culture grown by leaf-cutter ants, Atta mexicana; this moth is always (obligately) associated as a harmless guest on the nests of this ant species. [2] [3]
References
[edit]- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Amydria anceps". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
- ^ Sanchez-Peña, Sergio R.; Donald R. Davis; Ulrich G. Mueller (2003). "A gregarious, mycophagous, myrmecophilous moth, Amydria anceps Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Acrolophidae), living in Atta mexicana (F. Smith)(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) spent fungal culture accumulations". Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington. 105 (1): 186–194.
- ^ Lees, David C; Zilli, Alberto (2019). Moths: their biology, diversity and evolution. London: Natural History Museum, London. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-565-09457-7. OCLC 1065351569.
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