Autostichinae

Autostichinae

Autosticha Gelechid Moth (Autosticha pelodes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Gelechioidea
Family:	Autostichidae
Subfamily:	Autostichinae Le Marchand, 1947
Type species
Automola pelodes Meyrick, 1883
Genera
Several, see text

The Autostichinae are a subfamily of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Like their relatives therein, their exact relationships are not yet very well resolved. The present lineage was often included in the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae), but alternatively it is united with the Symmocidae sensu stricto (and often also the Holcopogonidae and/or certain genera otherwise considered twirler moths, e.g. Deoclona and Syringopais) to form an expanded family Autostichidae (in the past also referred to as family Symmocidae).^[1]

Selected genera

Genera in this subfamily are:^[2]

Anaptilora Meyrick, 1904
Autosticha Meyrick, 1886 (including Epicoenia, Semnolocha)
Demiophila Meyrick, 1906
Deroxena Meyrick, 1913
Diophila Meyrick, 1937
Encrasima Meyrick, 1916
Galagete B.Landry, 2002
Heliangara Meyrick, 1906
Ischnodoris Meyrick, 1911
Lasiodictis Meyrick, 1912
Nephantis Meyrick, 1905

Pachnistis Meyrick, 1907
Parallactis Meyrick, 1925
Procometis Meyrick, 1890
Protobathra Meyrick, 1916
Ptochoryctis Meyrick, 1894
Pudahuelia Urra, 2013
Sipsa Diakonoff, 1955
Stereosticha Meyrick, 1913
Stochastica Meyrick, 1938
Stoeberhinus – Potato Moth
Trichloma Lower, 1902

Also placed here by some authors is Syndesmica, which is otherwise assigned to subfamily Dichomeridinae of the twirler moths (Gelechiidae). The same was true for Anaptilora, which is mostly included here.

Footnotes

↑ ABRS (2008), FE (2008), Wikispecies (2011-OCT-17)
↑ ABRS (2008), Wikispecies (2011-OCT-17)

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Autostichinae.

Data related to Autostichinae at Wikispecies

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Autostichinae. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2011-OCT-17.
Fauna Europaea (FE) (2011): Autostichinae. Version 2.4, 2011-JAN-27. Retrieved 2011-OCT-17.

External links

Natural History Museum card index

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