Acanthocheira

Acanthocheira is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Tineidae, in which it is not assigned to a subfamily.^[2] The genus was established in 1968 by László Gozmány.^[a]

Acanthocheira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Genus:	Acanthocheira Gozmány, 1968
Species:	A. loxopa
Binomial name
Acanthocheira loxopa (Meyrick, 1914)[1]
Synonyms
Amydria loxopa Meyrick, 1914

Its sole species, Acanthocheira loxopa, was originally described by Edward Meyrick in 1914, as Amydria loxopa.^[1]

Distribution

Acanthocheira loxopa is known from South Africa, with a type locality in the Eastern Cape province.^[1]

Notes

1. In Gozmány, László (1968). "Some tineid moths of the Ethiopian region in the collections of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), II". Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 14: 321.^[3]