Ahamus lijiangensis is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Hong-Fu Chu and Lin-Yao Wang in 1985 and is known from Yunnan, China.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | Ahamus |
| Species: | A. lijiangensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Ahamus lijiangensis (Chu & Wang, 1985)[1]
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Ahamus lijiangensis is one of 14 species in the genus Ahamus.[2]
A recent paper has found that the superfamily Hepialoidea, of which A. lijiangensis is part, may be the only members of Infraorder Exoporia vulnerable to hosting the parasitic fungus Cordyceps and allied genera.[3]
References
edit- ^ Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 34 (6): 823–878. Bibcode:2000JNatH..34..823N. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. S2CID 86004391. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "Genus Ahamus". iNaturalist United Kingdom. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ Shrestha, Bhushan; Tanaka, Eiji; Hyun, Min Woo; Han, Jae-Gu; Kim, Chang Sun; Jo, Jong Won; Han, Sang-Kuk; Oh, Junsang; Sung, Gi-Ho (2016-02-22). "Coleopteran and Lepidopteran Hosts of the Entomopathogenic Genus Cordyceps sensu lato". Journal of Mycology. 2016: e7648219. doi:10.1155/2016/7648219. ISSN 2356-7481.
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