| Taxon | Amydria anceps |
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| Authority | 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
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- ^ 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