Dactylethrella
| Dactylethrella | |
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| Dactylethrella bryophilella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Anacampsinae |
| Genus: | Dactylethrella T. B. Fletcher, 1940 |
| Synonyms | |
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Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906 nec. Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829 | |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Dactylethrella Fletcher T. B., 1940". Afromoths. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Dactylethrella Fletcher, 1940". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
External links
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Media related to Dactylethrella at Wikimedia Commons- https://europepmc.org/article/cba/312668
