Catalectis

Catalectis is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. C. pharetropa was once mistaken for a species of Clepticodes, and Oenoe drosoptila of the Meessiinae was also proposed as a species of Catalectis; ít may be that these are all, in fact, closely related.[1]

Catalectis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Division:
Ditrysia
Family:
Tineidae
Subfamily:
Incertae sedis
Genus:
Catalectis

Meyrick, 1920
Type species
Catalectis pharetropa
Meyrick, 1920
Species

3, see text

Only three species are presently contained in this genus:[2]

  • Catalectis flexa Bradley, 1957
  • Catalectis pharetropa Meyrick, 1920 (= C. clasmatica)
  • Catalectis ptilozona Meyrick, 1923

Footnotes
  1. Clarke (1986), Robinson [2011], Wikispecies (2006-NOV-07)
  2. Robinson [2011]
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References

Data related to Catalectis at Wikispecies

  • Clarke, John Frederick Gates (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 416: 1-485. PDF fulltext (214 MB!)
  • Robinson, Gaden S. [2011]: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2011-DEC-22.


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