Heloscopa

Heloscopa is a moth genus. It was placed initially in the family Tineidae of superfamily Tineoidea, but it appears to belong to the related Gelechoidea, and therein to subfamily Oecophorinae of the family Oecophoridae.[1]

Heloscopa
Scientific classification
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Heloscopa

Diakonoff, 1955
Species:
H. petricola
Binomial name
Heloscopa petricola
Diakonoff, 1955

The genus is treated as monotypic, with the single species Heloscopa petricola placed here. The species is found in New Guinea.

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)

References

Data related to Heloscopa at Wikispecies


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