Genus of moths in family Lecithoceridae
Lecithocera
Lecithocera tenella
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lecithoceridae
Subfamily:
Lecithocerinae
Genus:
Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer , 1853
Synonyms
Andusia Walker, 1866 Brachyerga Meyrick, 1925 Celetodes Meyrick, 1921 Leviptera Janse, 1954 Macrotona Meyrick, 1904 Nyctocyrma Gozmány, 1978 Parrhasastris Gozmány, 1972 Patouissa Walker, 1864 Periphorectis Meyrick, 1925 Psammoris Meyrick, 1906 Quassitagma Gozmány, 1978 Recontracta Gozmány, 1978 Sarisophora Meyrick, 1904 disputed Siovata Walker, 1866 Syntetarca Gozmány, 1978 Tirasia Walker, 1864 Tiriza Walker, 1864 Titana Walker, 1864 Xanthocera Amsel, 1953 Xanthocerodes Amsel, 1955
Lecithocera moths in the lecithocerid subfamily Lecithocerinae . The genus was erected by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1853.[ 1] [ 2]
Species
Lecithocera absumptella (Walker, 1864) Lecithocera acolasta Meyrick, 1919 Lecithocera acribostola Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera acrosphales Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera acuta Wadhawan & Walia, 2007 Lecithocera adelella (Walker, 1864) Lecithocera adelella Viette, 1955 Lecithocera aenicta Janse, 1954 Lecithocera affusa Meyrick, 1923 Lecithocera alampes Turner, 1919 Lecithocera alcestis Meyrick, 1923 Lecithocera alpestra Park, 2005 Lecithocera alternella (Walker, 1866) Lecithocera altusana Park, 1999 Lecithocera ambona C. S. Wu & Y. Q. Liu, 1993 Lecithocera amphigrapta Meyrick, 1926 Lecithocera amseli Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera anatolica Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera ancylota (Meyrick, 1894) Lecithocera andrianella Viette, 1968 Lecithocera anglijuxta C. Wu, 1997 Lecithocera angustiella Park, 1999 Lecithocera ankasokella Viette, 1968 Lecithocera anthologella Wallengren, 1875 Lecithocera antiphractis Meyrick, 1921 Lecithocera anympha Meyrick, 1916 Lecithocera asarota Meyrick, 1925 Lecithocera aspergata Gozmány, 1973 Lecithocera atricastana Park, 1999 Lecithocera aulias Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera autodyas Meyrick, 1925 Lecithocera autologa Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera baeopis Meyrick, 1929 Lecithocera barbata Meyrick, 1933 Lecithocera barbifera Meyrick, 1922 Lecithocera bariella Viette, 1958 Lecithocera beijingensis Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera biaroensis Park, 2012 Lecithocera bimaculata Park, 1999 Lecithocera binotata Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera bipunctella (Snellen, 1903) Lecithocera brachyptila Diakonoff, 1954 Lecithocera brunneibella Park, 2012 Lecithocera caecilia Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera calochalca Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera calomerida Park & Wu, 2010 Lecithocera cameronella Viette, 1956 Lecithocera capnaula (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera carcinopsis Meyrick, 1929 Lecithocera carpaea (Meyrick, 1906) Lecithocera castanoma Wu, 1997 Lecithocera cataenepha Gozmány, 1973 Lecithocera caustospila Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera caveiformis Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera caviella Park, 2005 Lecithocera ceratoides Park, 2012 Lecithocera cerussata (Wu, 1994) Lecithocera chamela Turner, 1919 Lecithocera chartaca Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera chersitis Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera chlorogastra Meyrick, 1922 Lecithocera chloroscia Meyrick, 1938 Lecithocera choleroleuca Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera choritis Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera cinnamomea Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera coleasta Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera combusta Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera comparata (Gozmány, 1978) Lecithocera compsophila (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera concinna (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera contorta Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera contracta Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera cordata (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera cornutella (Walker, 1864) Lecithocera cornutima Park, 2009 Lecithocera corythaeola Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera cratophanes Meyrick, 1929 Lecithocera crebrata Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera crypsigenes Meyrick, 1929 Lecithocera cucullata Meyrick, 1914 Lecithocera cuspidata Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera cyamitis (Meyrick, 1904) Lecithocera daebuensis Park, 1999 Lecithocera decaryella Viette, 1955 Lecithocera decorosa Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera deleastra (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera deloma Durrant, 1915 Lecithocera desolata Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera dicentropa Meyrick, 1938 Lecithocera didentata Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera dierli Gozmány, 1973 Lecithocera diligens Meyrick, 1922 Lecithocera diplosticta Meyrick, 1922 Lecithocera dirupta Meyrick, 1923 Lecithocera disperma (Diakonoff, 1954) Lecithocera dissonella (Walker, 1864) Lecithocera distigmatella (Zeller, 1877) Lecithocera docilis Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera dondavisi Park, 2013 Lecithocera dracopis (Meyrick, 1921) Lecithocera dubitans Meyrick, 1926 Lecithocera duplicata (Gozmány, 1978) Lecithocera echinata Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera elephantopa (Meyrick, 1910) Lecithocera eligmosa C. S. Wu & Y. Q. Liu, 1993 Lecithocera eludens Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera epomia (Meyrick, 1905) Lecithocera erebosa Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera erecta Meyrick, 1935 Lecithocera eremiodes Park & Wu, 2010 Lecithocera eretma Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera eucharis Meyrick, 1933 Lecithocera eumenopis Meyrick, 1914 Lecithocera excaecata Meyrick, 1922 Lecithocera exophthalma (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera fascicula Park, 1999 Lecithocera fascinatrix Meyrick, 1935 Lecithocera fascitiala Park, 2012 Lecithocera fausta Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera flavicosta Gozmány, 1973 Lecithocera flavifusa Meyrick, 1926 Lecithocera flavipalpis Walsingham, 1891 Lecithocera flavofusa Gozmány, 1973 Lecithocera formosana (Shiraki) Lecithocera fornacalis (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera fraudatrix (Gozmány, 1978) Lecithocera frisilina (Gozmány, 1978) Lecithocera frustrata Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera fuscedinella (Snellen, 1901) Lecithocera fuscosa Park, 1999 Lecithocera gemma Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera gilviana Park & Wu, 2010 Lecithocera glabrata (C. S. Wu & Liu, 1992) Lecithocera glaphyritis Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera goniometra Meyrick, 1929 Lecithocera gozmanyi Pathania & Rose, 2004 Lecithocera grammophanes Meyrick, 1926 Lecithocera graphata Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera gyrosiella Park, 2012 Lecithocera haemylopis (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera hemiacma Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera hiarakella Viette, 1988 Lecithocera hiata Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera hildebrandtella Viette, 1956 Lecithocera hispidiella Park, 2012 Lecithocera homocentra Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera hypsipola Meyrick, 1926 Lecithocera ianthodes Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera ichorodes Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera ideologa Meyrick, 1937 Lecithocera immobilis Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera improvisa Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera imprudens (Meyrick, 1914) Lecithocera indigens (Meyrick, 1914) Lecithocera inepta Meyrick, 1926 Lecithocera inkyuleei Park, 2012 Lecithocera innotatella (Walker, 1864) Lecithocera insidians Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera integrata Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera iodocarpha Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera iresia (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera isomitra Meyrick, 1914 Lecithocera isophanes (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera itrinea Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera jugalis Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera kambanella Viette, 1986 Lecithocera lacunara Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera ladrone Gozmány, 2002 Lecithocera laminospina (Wu & Park, 1999) Lecithocera lamprodesma Meyrick, 1922 Lecithocera lasioides Park, 2012 Lecithocera latiola Park, 1999 Lecithocera lecithocerella Viette, 1956 Lecithocera leucoceros Meyrick, 1932 Lecithocera leucomastis Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera leucotella (Walker, 1864) Lecithocera levirota Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera licnitha Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera linocoma Meyrick, 1916 Lecithocera longivalva Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera loxophthalma Meyrick, 1934 Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick, 1913 Lecithocera luteola Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera luticostella Turati, 1926 Lecithocera macella Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera macrotoma Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera magna Park, 2005 Lecithocera malacta Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera masoalella Viette, 1955 Lecithocera mazina Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera megalopis Meyrick, 1916 Lecithocera megalosperma Diakonoff, 1954 Lecithocera melliflua Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera meloda Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera mepsina Park, 2006 Lecithocera mesosura C. S. Wu & Park, 1999 Lecithocera metacausta Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera metopaena C. S. Wu & Park, 1999 Lecithocera micromela (Lower, 1897) Lecithocera mocquerysella Viette, 1955 Lecithocera monobyrsa Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera montana Park, 2005 Lecithocera montiatilis Park, 2009 Lecithocera mylitacha Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera myopa Meyrick, 1913 Lecithocera nefasta Meyrick, 1916 Lecithocera neosticta Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera nepalica Gozmány, 1973 Lecithocera nepheloschema Gozmány, 1973 Lecithocera nigrana (Duponchel, 1835) Lecithocera niptanensis Park, 2012 Lecithocera nitikoba Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera nomaditis Meyrick, 1916 Lecithocera noseropa (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera obsignata Meyrick, 1914 Lecithocera ochrometra Meyrick, 1933 Lecithocera octonias Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera officialis Meyrick, 1911 Lecithocera ojejyella Viette, 1986 Lecithocera olinxana Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera omphacias Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera orbiculata Park & Wu, 2010 Lecithocera oxycona Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera pachyntis Meyrick, 1894 Lecithocera pakiaensis Park, 2009 Lecithocera palingensis Park, 1999 Lecithocera palmata Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera palpella Bradley, 1961 Lecithocera paralevirota Park, 1999 Lecithocera parenthesis Gozmány, 1973 Lecithocera paroena (Meyrick, 1906) Lecithocera paulianella Viette, 1955 Lecithocera pauperella Rebel, 1917 Lecithocera peloceros Meyrick, 1938 Lecithocera pelomorpha Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera pepantica Meyrick, 1934 Lecithocera peracantha Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera percnobela (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera perfida Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera perigypsa Meyrick, 1922 Lecithocera perpensa Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera perrierella Viette, 1985 Lecithocera persica Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera petalana C. S. Wu & Y. Q. Liu, 1993 Lecithocera phaeodryas Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera phaeoperla Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera phratriastis Meyrick, 1929 Lecithocera plicata C. S. Wu & Park, 1999 Lecithocera poculata Park & Wu, 2010 Lecithocera pogonikuma C. S. Wu & Park, 1999 Lecithocera poliocoma Meyrick, 1916 Lecithocera polioflava Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera porrectiella Park, 2012 Lecithocera praeses Meyrick, 1919 Lecithocera proclivis Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera protolyca Meyrick, 1938 Lecithocera protoma Meyrick, 1914 Lecithocera prudens Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera pseudolunata Park, 2012 Lecithocera ptochas Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera pulchella Park, 1999 Lecithocera pulcherrimella (Walker, 1866) Lecithocera punctigeneralis (Walker, 1864) Lecithocera purpurea Diakonoff, 1954 Lecithocera puteolata (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera pyxinodes Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera querula Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera rabenoroi Viette, 1988 Lecithocera radamella Viette, 1968 Lecithocera ranavaloella Viette, 1967 Lecithocera randimella Viette, 1956 Lecithocera raphidica Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera responsa Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera rotundata Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera rubigona Park, 2006 Lecithocera sabrata Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera sceptrarcha Meyrick, 1920 Lecithocera schoutedeniella Ghesquière, 1940 Lecithocera semirupta Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera semnodora Meyrick, 1933 Lecithocera serena Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera sextacta Diakonoff, 1954 Lecithocera shanpinensis Park, 1999 Lecithocera sigillata (Gozmány, 1978) Lecithocera signifera (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) Lecithocera sikkimella (Caradja, 1920) Lecithocera similis Park, 2006 Lecithocera simulatrix (Gozmány, 1978) Lecithocera sinuosa Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera sobria (Meyrick, 1904) Lecithocera sophronopa Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera spinulata Park, 2012 Lecithocera squalida Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera squamifera Meyrick, 1929 Lecithocera staurophora Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera stelophanes Meyrick, 1938 Lecithocera stichoides Park, 2012 Lecithocera stomobapta Meyrick, 1929 Lecithocera storestis (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera strangalistis (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera strenua Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera strigosa Durrant, 1915 Lecithocera structurata Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera sublunata Diakonoff, 1954 Lecithocera submersa Diakonoff, 1954 Lecithocera subservitella (Walker, 1864) Lecithocera symptomatica Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera syntropha Meyrick, 1918 Lecithocera syriella Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera telosperma Diakonoff, [1968] Lecithocera tenella (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera terrena (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera terrigena (Meyrick, 1904) Lecithocera thaiheisana Park, 1999 Lecithocera theconoma Meyrick, 1926 Lecithocera thioclora Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera tienchiensis Park, 1999 Lecithocera timioceros Meyrick, 1938 Lecithocera tricholoba Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera tridentata Wu & Liu, 1993 Lecithocera trifera Meyrick, 1938 Lecithocera trigonopsis (Meyrick, 1907) Lecithocera tumidosa Park & Wu, 2010 Lecithocera turcica Gozmány & Mey, 2005 Lecithocera tylobathra Meyrick, 1931 Lecithocera umbripennis (Swinhoe, 1885) Lecithocera vartiani Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera xanthoantennalis Wadhawan & Walia, 2007 Lecithocera xanthochalca Meyrick, 1914 Lecithocera xanthocosma (Meyrick, 1923) Lecithocera xanthocostalis Wadhawan & Walia, 2007 Lecithocera xanthophaea Meyrick, 1926 Lecithocera yoshiyasui Park, 2006
Lecithocera brachymita (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera chlaenota (Meyrick, 1904) Lecithocera cyclonitis (Meyrick, 1904) Lecithocera dispila (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera epigompha Meyrick, 1910 Lecithocera geraea (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera leptoglypta (Meyrick, 1904) Lecithocera leucoscia (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera lycopis (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera marginata Walsingham, 1891 Lecithocera meyricki (Ghesquière, 1940) Lecithocera nubigena (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera nyctiphylax (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera paraulias Gozmány, 1978 Lecithocera paroristis (Meyrick, 1911) Lecithocera pycnospila (Turner, 1919) Lecithocera xylogramma Meyrick, 1922
References
Further reading
Brown, J.W.; D. Adamski; R.W. Hodges & S.M. Bahr , 2004: Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Zootaxa 510 : 1–160. [1] Gozmány, L. & W. Mey , 2005: Eine neue Art der Familie Lecithoceridae aus der Türkei (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 49 : 127–128.Park, K.-t. 1999: Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) of Taiwan (I): Subfamily Lecithocerinae: Genera Homaloxestis Meyrick and Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer. Zoological studies , 38 (2): 238–256. PDF .Park, K. T. 2005: Genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer of Thailand (I): Descriptions of Three New Species (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 8 (3): 233–237.Park, K.-t. 2006: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand (II) Descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Tinea , 19 (2): 98-103.Park, K.-t. 2006: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand (III): New records of five species of the genus (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Journal of Asia-Pacific entomology , 9 (4): 313–316.Park, K.-t. 2009: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand. Part IV. Descriptions of three new species and notes on a little known species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). Zootaxa , 2208 : 58–64. Abstract & excerpt .Park, K. T. , 2012: Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of New Guinea, Part VI: Lecithocera sublunata species complex. Entomological Science 15 (1): 68–73. doi :10.1111/j.1479-8298.2011.00462.x .Park, K. T. , 2012: Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea, Lepidoptera) of New Guinea, Part X: Review of the genus Lecithocera with descriptions of ten new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 15 (2): 313–327.Park, K. T. , 2012: Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea, Lepidoptera) of New Guinea Part X: Review of the genus Sarisophora , with descriptions of seven new species. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 22 (1): 8-15.Park, K.-T.; J.B. Heppner & Y.-S. Bae , 2013: Two new species of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea), with a revised check list of the family in Taiwan. ZooKeys 263 : 47–57. Abstract and full article: doi :10.3897/zookeys.263.3781 .Park, K. T. & S.M. Lee , 1999: A review of the Lecithocerinae and Torodorinae (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) in Korea. Insecta Koreana 16 (2): 119–129.Park, K. T. & C.-S. Wu , 2010: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand Part V, with reports of nine species including six new species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 20 (2): 62–70.Wu, C.-s. & Y.-q. Liu , 1993: A study of the Chinese Lecithocera Herrich-Schaffer, 1853 and descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera:Lecithoceridae). Sinozoologia 10 : 319–345. Full article: [2] .Wu, C.-S. & K.-T. Park , 1999: Taxonomic review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) in Sri Lanka IV.The subfamily Lecithocerinae : genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer and its allies. Insecta Koreana 16 (1): 1-14.
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