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Calicotis

Calicotis is a genus of moths in the family Stathmopodidae, although it is sometimes included in the family Oecophoridae. In 2024, the genus Pachyrhabda was synonymised with Calicotis.

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Calicotis
Calicotis crucifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Stathmopodidae
Genus: Calicotis
Meyrick, 18891
Synonyms
  • Pachyrhabda Meyrick, 1889

Calicotis is a genus of moths in the family Stathmopodidae, although it is sometimes included in the family Oecophoridae. In 2024, the genus Pachyrhabda was synonymised with Calicotis.2

Species

  • Calicotis acroscia Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis adela Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis amianta Meyrick, 1927 (from Samoa)
  • Calicotis animula Meyrick, 1911 (from the Seychelles)
  • Calicotis antinoma Meyrick, 1910 (from Australia & New Zealand)
  • Calicotis argyritis Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis attiei (Guillermet, 2011) (from China, Japan, Réunion, Taiwan)
  • Calicotis bacterias Meyrick, 1913 (from Australia & Sri Lanka)
  • Calicotis campylosticha Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis capnoscia Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis citrinacma Meyrick, 1936 (from Taiwan)
  • Calicotis crucifera Meyrick, 1889 (from New Zealand/Australia)
  • Calicotis dicastis (Meyrick, 1905) (from India & Sri Lanka)
  • Calicotis epichlora (Meyrick, 1889) from New Zealand
  • Calicotis euphanopis Meyrick, 1927 (from New Hebrides)
  • Calicotis exclamationis Terada, 2016 (from Japan, Taiwan)
  • Calicotis fissa Meyrick, 1921 (from Java)
  • Calicotis griseella Sinev, 1988 (from Russia)
  • Calicotis hygrophaes Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis inanis Meyrick, 1936 (from Java)
  • Calicotis liriopis Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis luteella Sinev, 1988 (from Russia)
  • Calicotis microgalopsis Lower, 1904 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis phanta Bradley, 1957 (from Rennel island)
  • Calicotis praeusta Meyrick, 1922 (from Fiji)
  • Calicotis punctifera Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis rhizomorpha Meyrick, 1927 (from Samoa)
  • Calicotis rotundinidus Terada, 2016 (from Japan, Taiwan)
  • Calicotis sialota Turner, 1917 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis steropodes Meyrick, 1897 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis suspecta Meyrick, 1921 (from Java)
  • Calicotis tridora Meyrick, 1911 (from the Seychelles)
  • Calicotis triplecta Meyrick, 1913 (from South Africa)
  • Calicotis triploesta Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
  • Calicotis tumida Meyrick, 1913 (from Sri Lanka)
  • Calicotis unctoria Meyrick, 1911 (from South Africa)
  • Calicotis viscosa Meyrick, 1913 (from India)
  • Calicotis xanthoscia Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
References

References

  1. www.nhm.ac.uk Genus Database
  2. Shen, Zong-Yu; Terada, Takeshi; Landry, Jean-François; Hoare, Robert J. B.; Kuo, Li-Yaung; Chou, Ming-Hsun; Hsu, Yu-Feng; Huang, Jen-Pan (2024-05-01). "Systematics and evolutionary dynamics of insect-fern interactions in the specialized fern-spore feeding Cuprininae (Lepidoptera, Stathmopodidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 194 108040. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108040. ISSN 1055-7903. Retrieved 2024-07-08.