Xylorycta

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Xylorycta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Xylorycta
Meyrick
Species

About 50 species; see text for details.

Xylorycta is a genus of Australian oecophorid moth. They are strongly associated with the plant family Proteaceae, being found on Hakea, Lambertia, Grevillea, Leptospermum, Macadamia, Oreocallis, Persoonia and Telopea. The larvae of some species bore in the stems or branches, or the flower spikes of Banksia, but most live in a silk gallery spun in the foliage.[1]

The genus was first published by amateur entomologist Edward Meyrick in 1890 in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. It is currently placed in the large subfamily Xyloryctinae, in the family Oecophoridae.[2]

[edit] Species

  • X. amaloptis
  • X. amblygona
  • X. amphileuca
  • X. apheles
  • X. argentella
  • X. argyrota
  • X. assimilis
  • X. austera
  • X. bipunctella
  • X. calligramma
  • X. candescens
  • X. castanea
  • X. ceratospila
  • X. chionoptera
  • X. chrysomela
  • X. cirrhophragma
  • X. conistica
  • X. corticana
  • X. cosmeta
  • X. cosmopis
  • X. cygnella
  • X. emarginata
  • X. flavicosta
  • X. haplochroa
  • X. heliomacula
  • X. homoleuca
  • X. leucophanes
  • X. luteotactella
  • X. maeandria
  • X. melameucae
  • X. melanias
  • X. melanula
  • X. micracma
  • X. moligera
  • X. molybdina
  • X. nivella
  • X. ophiogramma
  • X. orectis
  • X. parabolella
  • X. parthenistis
  • X. perflua
  • X. philonympha
  • X. placidella
  • X. polysticha
  • X. sigmophora
  • X. stereodesma
  • X. streptogramma
  • X. strigata
  • X. sucina
  • X. synaula
  • X. tapeina
  • X. tignaria

[edit] References

  1. ^ Common, Ian Francis Bell (1990). Moths of Australia. Melbourne University Press. 0-522-84326-3. 
  2. ^ Xylorycta. Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Retrieved on 2007-05-16.