Leto venus

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| name = Leto

| image = CramerAndStoll-uitlandsche kapellen vol. 3- pl 286.jpg

| image_caption = Illustration in Uitlandsche kapellen

| parent_authority = Hübner, 1820

| taxon = Leto venus

| authority = (Cramer, 1780){{cite journal |last1=Nielsen |first1=Ebbe S. |last2=Robinson |first2=Gaden S. |last3=Wagner |first3=David L. |year=2000 |title=Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera )|journal=Journal of Natural History |volume=34 |issue=6 |pages=823–878 |doi=10.1080/002229300299282 |bibcode=2000JNatH..34..823N |s2cid=86004391 |url=http://johngrehan.net/files/1013/8578/1218/Nielsen_et_al_2000_Hepialidae.pdf}}

| synonyms =

Genus:

• Ecto Pagenstecher, 1909

Species:

• Phalaena venus Cramer, 1780

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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.