Biology:Dactylethrella
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Dactylethrella is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940 and is a replacement name for Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906 (preoccupied by Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829).
Taxonomy
The type species of both aforementioned genera is Dactylethra tetroctas Meyrick, 1906 from Sri Lanka, later a junior subjective synonym of Dactylethrella candida (Stainton, 1859).
Species
The species of this genus are:[1][2]
- Dactylethrella bryophilella (Walsingham, 1891) – Gambia
- Dactylethrella candida (Stainton, 1859) – Sri Lanka
- Dactylethrella chionitis (Meyrick, 1910) – South Africa
- Dactylethrella globulata (Meyrick, 1910) – Sri Lanka
- Dactylethrella incondita (Meyrick, 1913) – Sri Lanka
- Dactylethrella leuconota Bidzilya & Mey, 2011 – Namibia
- Dactylethrella siccifolii (Walsingham, 1881) – South Africa
- Dactylethrella tetrametra (Meyrick, 1913) – South Africa
Thes Asian species (amongst others) are subsequently placed in other genera:
- Dactylethrella catarina Pnomarenko – China
- Dactylethrella shenae Li & Zheng, 1998 – China
- Dactylethrella tegulifera (Meyrick) – China
(See also "Dactylethrella albidella" of some listings, may be from protonym Nothris albidella Snellen, 1884, later Empalactis albidella (Snellen, 1884)).
References
- ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Dactylethrella Fletcher T. B., 1940". http://www.afromoths.net/genus/show/302070. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ↑ Savela, Markku. "Dactylethrella Fletcher, 1940". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/gelechiidae/anacampsinae/dactylethrella/. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q5207784 entry
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