Ethmiopsis
| Ethmiopsis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Division: | Ditrysia |
| Superfamily: | Gelechioidea |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pexicopiinae |
| Genus: | Ethmiopsis Meyrick in Caradja & Meyrick, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Ethmiopsis prosectrix Meyrick in Caradja & Meyrick, 1935 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ethmiopsis is a genus of the twirler moth family (Gelechiidae). Among these, it is assigned to subfamily Pexicopiinae.
At least some of these moths are characterized by a short scape and a triangular tuft of short hairs on the tip of the second labial palp segment. These traits are shared by the enigmatic Chelophoba melaina, and it might be warranted to include this (or even all of Chelophoba) in Ethmiopsis.[2]
Species of Ethmiopsis include:
- Ethmiopsis aganactes (Meyrick, 1935)
- Ethmiopsis catarina (Ponomarenko, 1994)
- Ethmiopsis epichthonia (Meyrick in Caradja & Meyrick, 1935)
- Ethmiopsis heppneri (Park, 1995)
- Ethmiopsis prosectrix Meyrick in Caradja & Meyrick, 1935
- Ethmiopsis scriniata (Meyrick, 1913)
- Ethmiopsis subtegulifera (Ponomarenko, 1994)
- Ethmiopsis tegulifera (Meyrick, 1932)
Footnotes
References
- Clarke, John Frederick Gates (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 416: 1-485. PDF fulltext (214 MB!)
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Ethmiopsis. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-OCT-17.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Homoshelas. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-OCT-17.