Comodica

Comodica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Erechthiinae
Genus:	Comodica Meyrick, 1880
Type species
Comodica tetracercella Meyrick, 1880
Species
11, but see text
Synonyms
Biastolemma J.F.G.Clarke, 1971

Comodica is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Erechthiinae. It is apparently a close relative of the type genus of its subfamily, Erechthias.¹

It is usually delimited sensu stricto, making it a smallish genus, with 11 species presently placed here:¹

• Comodica cirrhopolia (Turner, 1923)
• Comodica coarctata (J.F.G.Clarke, 1971)
• Comodica crypsicroca Turner, 1923
• Comodica drepanosema Turner, 1923
• Comodica lucinda Meyrick, 1927
• Comodica ordinata Walsingham, 1914
• Comodica polygrapta Meyrick, 1924
• Comodica semiades Bradley, 1956
• Comodica signata J.F.G.Clarke, 1986
• Comodica tetracercella Meyrick, 1880
• Comodica tigrina Turner, 1917

Erechthias and Comodica are not unequivocally delimited against each other yet. Some species of the former are occasionally placed in the present genus, namely:²

• Erechthias citrinopa
• Erechthias contributa
• Erechthias decaspila
• Erechthias dochmogramma
• Erechthias epispora
• Erechthias eurynipha
• Erechthias saitoi

Mecomodica fullawayi is also sometimes placed in Comodica; it might alternatively belong in Erechthias or represent a distinct lineage not much closer to either of the two than to the other.³