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Trachycentra

Trachycentra is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Hapsiferinae.

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Trachycentra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Hapsiferinae
Genus: Trachycentra
Meyrick, 1886
Type species
Trachycentra calamias
Meyrick, 1886
Species

11, see text

Synonyms

Harpeptila A.N.Diakonoff, 1968

Trachycentra is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Hapsiferinae.1

With eleven known species, this is one of the smaller genera of fungus moths:1

  • Trachycentra amphiloxa Meyrick, 1907
  • Trachycentra calamias Meyrick, 1886
  • Trachycentra chlorogramma Meyrick, 1907 (= T. aulacitis)
  • Trachycentra cicatricosa Meyrick, 1922
  • Trachycentra corethrodes (A.N.Diakonoff, 1968)
  • Trachycentra elaeotropha Meyrick, 1933
  • Trachycentra glaucias Meyrick, 1907
  • Trachycentra prasina (A.N.Diakonoff, 1968)
  • Trachycentra psorodes Meyrick, 1907
  • Trachycentra rhynchitis Meyrick, 1938
  • Trachycentra sagmatias Meyrick, 1907
Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. Robinson [2011]
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