Wegneria lachanitis

Wegneria lachanitis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Genus:	Wegneria
Species:	W. lachanitis
Binomial name
	Wegneria lachanitis; (Meyrick, 1906)
Synonyms
	Opogona lachanitis Meyrick, 1906;

Wegneria lachanitis is a moth of the family Tineidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1906.^[1] It is found in Sri Lanka^[2] and India.

The caterpillars use fungi as their host plants.^[3]

References[]

^ "Species Details: Wegneria lachanitis (Meyrick, 1906)". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
^ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 – via Academia.
^ "HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants". The Natural History Museum. Retrieved 28 March 2018.

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