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Silosca

Silosca is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. The genus was described in 1965 by Hungarian entomologist László Anthony Gozmány.

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Silosca
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Siloscinae
Genus: Silosca
Gozmány, 1965
Type species
Silosca mariae
Gozmány, 19651

Silosca is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.2 The genus was described in 1965 by Hungarian entomologist László Anthony Gozmány.

All species in this genus are only known from African countries.

Species

  • Silosca comorensis Gozmány, 1968
  • Silosca hypsocola Gozmány, 1968
  • Silosca licziae Gozmány, 1967
  • Silosca mariae Gozmány, 1965
  • Silosca savannae Gozmány, 1968
  • Silosca somnis Gozmány, 1967
  • Silosca superba Gozmány, 1967
References

References

  1. Gozmány, 1965. Some collections of Tineid moths from Africa (Microlepidoptera). - Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 11(3–4):253–294.
  2. afromoths