Holcopogon

Holcopogon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Holcopogon
Staudinger in Romanoff, 1879
Type species
Holcopogon helveolellus
Staudinger in Romanoff, 1879
Synonyms

Cyrmia (lapsus)
Cyrnia Walsingham, 1900
Epistomotis Meyrick, 1906

Holcopogon is a genus of gelechioid moths. It is the type genus of the subfamily Holcopogoninae, which is mostly placed within the concealer moth family Autostichidae.[1]

The type species was designated as H. helveolellus, but this turned out to be a junior synonym of H. bubulcellus. Some authors have thus erroneously assumed the latter taxon to be the genus' type. Cyrnia is sometimes listed as a distinct genus, but its type species (Cyrnia barbata) is generally assumed to be another junior synonym of H. bubulcellus. Thus, Cyrnia is a junior subjective synonym of Holcopogon.[2]

The species of Holcopogon are:[3]

References

  1. FE (2009), Wikispecies (2006-NOV-07)
  2. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004a,b), FE (2009)
  3. FE (2009)

Data related to Holcopogonidae at Wikispecies

Further reading

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