Biology:Pyroderces

Short description: Genus of moths

Pyroderces
P. aellotricha specimen (abdomen missing) Scale bar = 2 mm
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Subfamily:	Cosmopteriginae
Genus:	Pyroderces Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
Type species
Pyroderces goldeggiella Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
Diversity
87, but see text
Synonyms
Lallia Chrétien, 1915 Tenuipenna Amsel, 1959 Syntomactis Meyrick, 1889

Pyroderces is a genus of cosmet moths (family Cosmopterigidae). It belongs to subfamily Cosmopteriginae. Some authors include Anatrachyntis here.

Species

• Pyroderces aellotricha
• Pyroderces albistrigella (Möschler, 1890)
• Pyroderces anthinopa
• Pyroderces apicinotella (Chrétien, 1915) (type species of Lallia)
• Pyroderces apparitella (Walker, 1864)
• Pyroderces argentata
• Pyroderces argobalana Meyrick, 1915
• Pyroderces argyrogrammos
• Pyroderces bifurcata Z.W.Zhang & H.H.Li, 2009
• Pyroderces brosi
• Pyroderces caesaris
• Pyroderces cervinella
• Pyroderces chalcoptila
• Pyroderces deamatella (Walker, 1864) (type species of Syntomactis)
• Pyroderces dimidiella (Snellen, 1885)
• Pyroderces diplecta
• Pyroderces eupogon Turner, 1926
• Pyroderces firma
• Pyroderces hapalodes Turner, 1923
• Pyroderces jonesella
• Pyroderces klimeschi
• Pyroderces leptarga
• Pyroderces longalitella
• Pyroderces melanosarca
• Pyroderces narcota
• Pyroderces nephelopyrrha
• Pyroderces ocreella
• Pyroderces orientella Sinev, 1993
• Pyroderces sarcogypsa
• Pyroderces sphenosema
• Pyroderces spix Bippus, 2020
• Pyroderces syngalactis
• Pyroderces tenuilinea Turner, 1923
• Pyroderces tersectella
• Pyroderces tethysella
• Pyroderces urantha
• Pyroderces wolschrijni
• Pyroderces phaeostigma
• Pyroderces pogonias Turner, 1923

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Wikidata ☰ Q149647 entry