Lecithocerinae

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Lecithocerinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Suborder: Glossata (unranked) Ditrysia Superfamily: Gelechioidea Family: Lecithoceridae Subfamily: Lecithocerinae

Lecithocerinae is a subfamily of small moths in the family Lecithoceridae. They are found worldwide, but most species occur in South-Asia. The subfamily is characterized by the male genitalia with a bridge-like structure connecting the tegumen and the valva, and the uncus almost always vestigal with two lobes at the dorsal base, only exceptionally united into a broad plate, but never as a thorn or spine.

Older classifications have treated the family Lecithoceridae as subfamily Lecithocerinae of Gelechiidae.

The genera belonging here include:

• Alciphanes
• Atrichozancla
• Carodista
• Catacreagra
• Dinochares
• Doxogenes
• Eurodachtha
• Frisilia
• Homaloxestis
• Issikiopteryx
• Lecithocera
• Lecitholaxa
• Odites
• Opacoptera
• Psammoris
• Quassitagma
• Spatulignatha
• Synesarga
• Tegenocharis
• Thailepidonia
• Timyra
• Tisis

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