Ephysteris
Ephysteris is a genus of the twirler moth family (Gelechiidae). Among these, it is assigned to tribe Gnorimoschemini of the subfamily Gelechiinae. Even though it is a rather diverse and widespread group, most of these small and inconspicuous moths were overlooked by scientists until the early 20th century. Almost 90 species are known today, but new ones are still being discovered.
These moths typically have forewing veins 2 and 3 separate but veins 6-8 originating from a common stalk. Somewhat less characteristically, their labial palps have a pointed tip and a furrow on the second segment.[2]
Ochrodia and Opacopsis were initially established as subgenera of Ephysteris but elevated to full genus status later. However, this is not universally accepted and both are included in the present genus here. Microcraspedus is another subgenus of Ephysteris, to which many of the European species are assigned; Echinoglossa is another. But before any of these can be accepted as subgenus or even distinct genus, the internal systematics of Ephysteris sensu lato are in need of review.[3]
Species
As of 2010, the species of Ephysteris are:[4]
- Ephysteris accentella
- Ephysteris albocapitella
- Ephysteris arabiae
- Ephysteris atalopis
- Ephysteris aulacopis
- Ephysteris australiae
- Ephysteris brachypogon Meyrick, 1937 (type species of Microcraspedus)
- Ephysteris brachyptera Karsholt & Sattler, 1998
- Ephysteris bucolica
- Ephysteris buvati (Povolny, 1992)
- Ephysteris cacomicra
- Ephysteris chersaea
- Ephysteris chretieni
- Ephysteris confusa
- Ephysteris coniogramma
- Ephysteris cretigena
- Ephysteris crocoleuca
- Ephysteris curtipennis
- Ephysteris cyrenaica
- Ephysteris delminiliella
- Ephysteris deserticolella (Staudinger, 1871)
- Ephysteris despectella
- Ephysteris dierli
- Ephysteris diminutella (Zeller, 1847)
- Ephysteris dispensata
- Ephysteris eremaula
- Ephysteris ericnista
- Ephysteris extorris
- Ephysteris fanatica
- Ephysteris ferritincta
- Ephysteris flavida Povolný, 1969
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- Ephysteris fluidescens
- Ephysteris foulonsensis Povolny, 1981
- Ephysteris fuscocrossa
- Ephysteris gallica (Povolny, 1992)
- Ephysteris hispanica Povolny, 1981
- Ephysteris iberica Povolny, 1977
- Ephysteris infallax
- Ephysteris infirma
- Ephysteris insularis
- Ephysteris insulella (Heinemann, 1870)
- Ephysteris insulella praticolella (Christoph 1872)
- Ephysteris inustella (Zeller, 1847) (type species of Opacopsis)[5]
- Ephysteris inustella gredosensis (Rebel 1935)
- Ephysteris jamaicensis
- Ephysteris juvenilis
- Ephysteris kasyi
- Ephysteris leptocentra
- Ephysteris longicornis J.F.G.Clarke, 1986
- Ephysteris lunaki
- Ephysteris montana H.H.Li & Bidzilya, 2008
- Ephysteris monticola
- Ephysteris neosirota
- Ephysteris obstans
- Ephysteris ochrodeta
- Ephysteris olympica Povolny, 1968
- Ephysteris ornata
- Ephysteris oschophora
- Ephysteris oxythectis
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- Ephysteris paraleuca
- Ephysteris parvula
- Ephysteris pentamacula
- Ephysteris petiginella
- Ephysteris promptella (Staudinger, 1859)
- Ephysteris pulverea
- Ephysteris riadensis
- Ephysteris ruth
- Ephysteris semiophanes
- Ephysteris sibila
- Ephysteris silignitis (Turner, 1919)
- Ephysteris sirota
- Ephysteris speciosa
- Ephysteris suasoria
- Ephysteris subcaerulea
- Ephysteris subdiminutella (Stainton, 1867) (type species of Ochrodia)
- Ephysteris subovata Povolný, 2001
- Ephysteris surda
- Ephysteris synecta
- Ephysteris tenuisaccus K.Nupponen, 2010
- Ephysteris tractatum
- Ephysteris treskensis Povolny, 1966
- Ephysteris tribulivora
- Ephysteris trinota Clarke, 1965 (type species of Echinoglossa)
- Ephysteris turgida
- Ephysteris unica
- Ephysteris unitella
- Ephysteris wenquana H.H.Li & Bidzilya, 2008
- Ephysteris xanthorhabda
- Ephysteris zygophyllella
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- ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), ABRS (2010)
- ^ Clarke (1986)
- ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004a), FE (2011), and see references in Savela (2001)
- ^ Wikispecies (2010-JUN-16), FE (2011)
- ^ Some sources give the type species as Gelechia artemisie, but the type specimen was actually of "var. inustella": Pitkin & Jenkins (2004b).
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