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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.

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Catalectis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Catalectis
Meyrick, 1920
Type species
Catalectis pharetropa
Meyrick, 1920
Species

3, see text

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

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

Footnotes

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

References

Data related to Catalectis at Wikispecies