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Leto
	Illustration in Uitlandsche kapellen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hepialidae
Genus:	Leto; Hübner, 1820
Species:	L. venus
Binomial name
	Leto venus; (Cramer, 1780)
Synonyms
	Genus: Ecto Pagenstecher, 1909; Species: Phalaena venus Cramer, 1780;

Leto is a monotypic moth genus of the family Hepialidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1820. The only described species is Leto venus, described by Pieter Cramer in 1780, which is endemic to South Africa. The larval food plant is Virgilia.

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. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. S2CID 86004391.

Leto

Illustration in Uitlandsche kapellen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hepialidae
Genus:	Leto Hübner, 1820
Species:	L. venus
Binomial name
*Leto venus* (Cramer, 1780)^[1]
Synonyms
Genus: Ecto Pagenstecher, 1909 Species: Phalaena venus Cramer, 1780