Xylorycta

Xylorycta
Xylorycta stereodesma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Subfamily: Xyloryctinae
Genus: Xylorycta
Meyrick, 1890
Species

About 50 species; see text for details.

Synonyms
  • Neodrepta Turner, 1898

Xylorycta is a genus of African and Australian oecophorid moth. Xylorycta species 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 into 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]

Species

  • X. amaloptis
  • X. amblygona
  • X. amphileuca
  • X. apheles
  • X. argentella
  • X. artigena
  • 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. malgassella
  • 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

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 2007-05-16.
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