Lecithocera

Lecithocera
Lecithocera tenella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Glossata
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
(unranked):	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Gelechioidea
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Genus:	Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
Synonyms
Tiriza Walker, 1864 Titana Walker, 1864 Tirasia Walker, 1864 Patouissa Walker, 1864 Andusia Walker, 1866 Siovata Walker, 1866 Celetodes Meyrick, 1921 Macrotona Meyrick, 1904 Psammoris Meyrick, 1906 Periphorectis Meyrick, 1925 Brachyerga Meyrick, 1925 Leviptera Janse, 1954 Syntetarca Gozmány, 1978 Xanthocera Amsel, 1953 Xanthocerodes Amsel, 1955 Parrhasastris Gozmány, 1972 Quassitagma Gozmány, 1978 Recontracta Gozmány, 1978 Nyctocyrma Gozmány, 1978 Sarisophora Meyrick, 1904 disputed

Lecithocera is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae.

Species

• Lecithocera absumptella (Walker, 1864)
• Lecithocera acolasta Meyrick, 1919
• Lecithocera acribostola Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera acrosphales Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera acuta Wadhawan & Walia, 2007
• Lecithocera adelella (Walker, 1864)
• Lecithocera adelella Viette, 1955
• Lecithocera aenicta Janse, 1954
• Lecithocera affusa Meyrick, 1923
• Lecithocera alampes Turner, 1919
• Lecithocera alcestis Meyrick, 1923
• Lecithocera alpestra Park, 2005
• Lecithocera alternella (Walker, 1866)
• Lecithocera altusana K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera ambona C.S. Wu & Y.Q. Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera amphigrapta Meyrick, 1926
• Lecithocera amseli Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera anatolica Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera ancylota (Meyrick, 1894)
• Lecithocera andrianella Viette, 1968
• Lecithocera anglijuxta C. Wu, 1997
• Lecithocera angustiella K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera ankasokella Viette, 1968
• Lecithocera anthologella Wallengren, 1875
• Lecithocera antiphractis Meyrick, 1921
• Lecithocera anympha Meyrick, 1916
• Lecithocera asarota Meyrick, 1925
• Lecithocera aspergata Gozmány, 1973
• Lecithocera atricastana K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera aulias Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera autodyas Meyrick, 1925
• Lecithocera autologa Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera baeopis Meyrick, 1929
• Lecithocera barbata Meyrick, 1933
• Lecithocera barbifera Meyrick, 1922
• Lecithocera bariella Viette, 1958
• Lecithocera beijingensis Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera biaroensis Park, 2012
• Lecithocera bimaculata K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera binotata Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera bipunctella (Snellen, 1903)
• Lecithocera brachyptila Diakonoff, 1954
• Lecithocera brunneibella Park, 2012
• Lecithocera caecilia Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera calochalca Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera calomerida Park & Wu, 2010
• Lecithocera cameronella Viette, 1956
• Lecithocera capnaula (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera carcinopsis Meyrick, 1929
• Lecithocera carpaea (Meyrick, 1906)
• Lecithocera castanoma Wu, 1997
• Lecithocera cataenepha Gozmány, 1973
• Lecithocera caustospila Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera caveiformis Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera caviella Park, 2005
• Lecithocera ceratoides Park, 2012
• Lecithocera cerussata (Wu, 1994)
• Lecithocera chamela Turner, 1919
• Lecithocera chartaca Wu & Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera chersitis Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera chlorogastra Meyrick, 1922
• Lecithocera chloroscia Meyrick, 1938
• Lecithocera choleroleuca Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera choritis Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera cinnamomea Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera coleasta Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera combusta Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera comparata (Gozmány, 1978)
• Lecithocera compsophila (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera concinna (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera contorta Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera contracta Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera cordata (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera cornutella (Walker, 1864)
• Lecithocera cornutima K.T. Park, 2009
• Lecithocera corythaeola Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera cratophanes Meyrick, 1929
• Lecithocera crebrata Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera crypsigenes Meyrick, 1929
• Lecithocera cucullata Meyrick, 1914
• Lecithocera cuspidata Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera cyamitis (Meyrick, 1904)
• Lecithocera daebuensis K.T. Park, 1999
• Lecithocera decaryella Viette, 1955
• Lecithocera decorosa Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera deleastra (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera deloma Durrant, 1915
• Lecithocera desolata Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera dicentropa Meyrick, 1938
• Lecithocera didentata Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera dierli Gozmány, 1973
• Lecithocera diligens Meyrick, 1922
• Lecithocera diplosticta Meyrick, 1922
• Lecithocera dirupta Meyrick, 1923
• Lecithocera disperma (Diakonoff, 1954)
• Lecithocera dissonella (Walker, 1864)
• Lecithocera distigmatella (Zeller, 1877)
• Lecithocera docilis Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera dondavisi Park, 2013
• Lecithocera dracopis (Meyrick, 1921)
• Lecithocera dubitans Meyrick, 1926
• Lecithocera duplicata (Gozmány, 1978)
• Lecithocera echinata Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera elephantopa (Meyrick, 1910)
• Lecithocera eligmosa C.S. Wu & Y.Q. Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera eludens Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera epomia (Meyrick, 1905)
• Lecithocera erebosa Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera erecta Meyrick, 1935
• Lecithocera eremiodes Park & Wu, 2010
• Lecithocera eretma Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera eucharis Meyrick, 1933
• Lecithocera eumenopis Meyrick, 1914
• Lecithocera excaecata Meyrick, 1922
• Lecithocera exophthalma (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera fascicula K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera fascinatrix Meyrick, 1935
• Lecithocera fascitiala K.T. Park, 2012
• Lecithocera fausta Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera flavicosta Gozmány, 1973
• Lecithocera flavifusa Meyrick, 1926
• Lecithocera flavipalpis Walsingham, 1891
• Lecithocera flavofusa Gozmány, 1973
• Lecithocera formosana (Shiraki)
• Lecithocera fornacalis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera fraudatrix (Gozmány, 1978)
• Lecithocera frisilina (Gozmány, 1978)
• Lecithocera frustrata Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera fuscedinella (Snellen, 1901)
• Lecithocera fuscosa K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera gemma Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera gilviana Park & Wu, 2010
• Lecithocera glabrata (C.S.Wu & liu, 1992)
• Lecithocera glaphyritis Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera goniometra Meyrick, 1929
• Lecithocera gozmanyi Pathania & Rose, 2004
• Lecithocera grammophanes Meyrick, 1926
• Lecithocera graphata Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera gyrosiella Park, 2012
• Lecithocera haemylopis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera hemiacma Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera hiarakella Viette, 1988
• Lecithocera hiata Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera hildebrandtella Viette, 1956
• Lecithocera hispidiella Park, 2012
• Lecithocera homocentra Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera hypsipola Meyrick, 1926
• Lecithocera ianthodes Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera ichorodes Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera ideologa Meyrick, 1937
• Lecithocera immobilis Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera improvisa Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera imprudens (Meyrick, 1914)
• Lecithocera indigens (Meyrick, 1914)
• Lecithocera inepta Meyrick, 1926
• Lecithocera inkyuleei Park, 2012
• Lecithocera innotatella (Walker, 1864)
• Lecithocera insidians Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera integrata Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera iodocarpha Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera iresia (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera isomitra Meyrick, 1914
• Lecithocera isophanes (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera itrinea Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera jugalis Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera kambanella Viette, 1986
• Lecithocera lacunara Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera ladrone Gozmány, 2002
• Lecithocera laminospina (Wu & Park, 1999)
• Lecithocera lamprodesma Meyrick, 1922
• Lecithocera lasioides Park, 2012
• Lecithocera latiola K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera lecithocerella Viette, 1956
• Lecithocera leucoceros Meyrick, 1932
• Lecithocera leucomastis Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera leucotella (Walker, 1864)
• Lecithocera levirota Wu & Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera licnitha Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera linocoma Meyrick, 1916
• Lecithocera longivalva Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera loxophthalma Meyrick, 1934
• Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick, 1913
• Lecithocera luteola Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera luticostella Turati, 1926
• Lecithocera macella Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera macrotoma Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera magna Park, 2005
• Lecithocera malacta Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera masoalella Viette, 1955
• Lecithocera mazina Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera megalopis Meyrick, 1916
• Lecithocera megalosperma Diakonoff, 1954
• Lecithocera melliflua Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera meloda Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera mepsina K.T. Park, 2006
• Lecithocera mesosura C.S. Wu & K.T. Park, 1999
• Lecithocera metacausta Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera metopaena C.S. Wu & K.T. Park, 1999
• Lecithocera micromela (Lower, 1897)
• Lecithocera mocquerysella Viette, 1955
• Lecithocera monobyrsa Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera montana Park, 2005
• Lecithocera montiatilis K.T. Park, 2009
• Lecithocera mylitacha Wu & Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera myopa Meyrick, 1913
• Lecithocera nefasta Meyrick, 1916
• Lecithocera neosticta Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera nepalica Gozmány, 1973
• Lecithocera nepheloschema Gozmány, 1973
• Lecithocera nigrana (Duponchel, 1835)
• Lecithocera niptanensis K.T. Park, 2012
• Lecithocera nitikoba Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera nomaditis Meyrick, 1916
• Lecithocera noseropa (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera obsignata Meyrick, 1914
• Lecithocera ochrometra Meyrick, 1933
• Lecithocera octonias Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera officialis Meyrick, 1911
• Lecithocera ojejyella Viette, 1986
• Lecithocera olinxana Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera omphacias Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera orbiculata Park & Wu, 2010
• Lecithocera oxycona Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera pachyntis Meyrick, 1894
• Lecithocera pakiaensis K.T. Park, 2009
• Lecithocera palingensis K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera palmata Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera palpella Bradley, 1961
• Lecithocera paralevirota K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera parenthesis Gozmány, 1973
• Lecithocera paroena (Meyrick, 1906)
• Lecithocera paulianella Viette, 1955
• Lecithocera pauperella Rebel, 1917
• Lecithocera peloceros Meyrick, 1938
• Lecithocera pelomorpha Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera pepantica Meyrick, 1934
• Lecithocera peracantha Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera percnobela (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera perfida Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera perigypsa Meyrick, 1922
• Lecithocera perpensa Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera perrierella Viette, 1985
• Lecithocera persica Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera petalana C.S. Wu & Y.Q. Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera phaeodryas Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera phaeoperla Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera phratriastis Meyrick, 1929
• Lecithocera plicata C.S. Wu & K.T. Park, 1999
• Lecithocera poculata Park & Wu, 2010
• Lecithocera pogonikuma C.S. Wu & K.T. Park, 1999
• Lecithocera poliocoma Meyrick, 1916
• Lecithocera polioflava Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera porrectiella Park, 2012
• Lecithocera praeses Meyrick, 1919
• Lecithocera proclivis Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera protolyca Meyrick, 1938
• Lecithocera protoma Meyrick, 1914
• Lecithocera prudens Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera pseudolunata K.T. Park, 2012
• Lecithocera ptochas Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera pulchella K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera pulcherrimella (Walker, 1866)
• Lecithocera punctigeneralis (Walker, 1864)
• Lecithocera purpurea Diakonoff, 1954
• Lecithocera puteolata (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera pyxinodes Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera querula Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera rabenoroi Viette, 1988
• Lecithocera radamella Viette, 1968
• Lecithocera ranavaloella Viette, 1967
• Lecithocera randimella Viette, 1956
• Lecithocera raphidica Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera responsa <small Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera rotundata Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera rubigona K.T. Park, 2006
• Lecithocera sabrata Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera sceptrarcha Meyrick, 1920
• Lecithocera schoutedeniella Ghesquière, 1940
• Lecithocera semirupta Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera semnodora Meyrick, 1933
• Lecithocera serena Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera sextacta Diakonoff, 1954
• Lecithocera shanpinensis K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera sigillata (Gozmány, 1978)
• Lecithocera signifera (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Lecithocera sikkimella (Caradja, 1920)
• Lecithocera similis K.T. Park, 2006
• Lecithocera simulatrix (Gozmány, 1978)
• Lecithocera sinuosa Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera sobria (Meyrick, 1904)
• Lecithocera sophronopa Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera spinulata Park, 2012
• Lecithocera squalida Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera squamifera Meyrick, 1929
• Lecithocera staurophora Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera stelophanes Meyrick, 1938
• Lecithocera stichoides Park, 2012
• Lecithocera stomobapta Meyrick, 1929
• Lecithocera storestis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera strangalistis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera strenua Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera strigosa Durrant, 1915
• Lecithocera structurata Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera sublunata Diakonoff, 1954
• Lecithocera submersa Diakonoff, 1954
• Lecithocera subservitella (Walker, 1864)
• Lecithocera symptomatica Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera syntropha Meyrick, 1918
• Lecithocera syriella Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera telosperma Diakonoff, [1968]
• Lecithocera tenella (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera terrena (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera terrigena (Meyrick, 1904)
• Lecithocera thaiheisana K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera theconoma Meyrick, 1926
• Lecithocera thioclora Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera tienchiensis K.T.Park, 1999
• Lecithocera timioceros Meyrick, 1938
• Lecithocera tricholoba Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera tridentata Wu and Liu, 1993
• Lecithocera trifera Meyrick, 1938
• Lecithocera trigonopsis (Meyrick, 1907)
• Lecithocera tumidosa Park & Wu, 2010
• Lecithocera turcica Gozmány & Mey, 2005
• Lecithocera tylobathra Meyrick, 1931
• Lecithocera umbripennis (Swinhoe, 1885)
• Lecithocera vartiani Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera xanthoantennalis Wadhawan & Walia, 2007
• Lecithocera xanthochalca Meyrick, 1914
• Lecithocera xanthocosma (Meyrick, 1923)
• Lecithocera xanthocostalis Wadhawan & Walia, 2007
• Lecithocera xanthophaea Meyrick, 1926
• Lecithocera yoshiyasui K.T. Park, 2006

Former species

• Lecithocera brachymita (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera chlaenota (Meyrick, 1904)
• Lecithocera cyclonitis (Meyrick, 1904)
• Lecithocera dispila (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera epigompha Meyrick, 1910
• Lecithocera geraea (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera leptoglypta (Meyrick, 1904)
• Lecithocera leucoscia (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera lycopis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera marginata Walsingham, 1891
• Lecithocera meyricki (Ghesquière, 1940)
• Lecithocera nubigena (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera nyctiphylax (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera paraulias Gozmány, 1978
• Lecithocera paroristis (Meyrick, 1911)
• Lecithocera pycnospila (Turner, 1919)
• Lecithocera xylogramma Meyrick, 1922

References

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• Brown, J.W.; D. Adamski; R.W. Hodges & S.M. Bahr, 2004: Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Zootaxa 510: 1-160.
• Gozmány, L. & W. Mey, 2005 : Eine neue Art der Familie Lecithoceridae aus der Türkei (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 49: 127-128.
• Park, K.-t. 1999: Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) of Taiwan (I): Subfamily Lecithocerinae: Genera Homaloxestis Meyrick and Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer. Zoological studies, 38(2): 238-256. PDF.
• Park, K.T. 2005: Genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer of Thailand (I): Descriptions of Three New Species (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 8 (3): 233-237.
• Park, K.-t. 2006: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand (II) Descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Tinea, 19(2): 98-103.
• Park, K.-t. 2006: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand (III): New records of five species of the genus (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Journal of Asia-Pacific entomology, 9(4): 313–316.
• Park, K.-t. 2009: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand. Part IV. Descriptions of three new species and notes on a little known species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). Zootaxa, 2208: 58-64. Abstract & excerpt.
• Park, K.T., 2012: Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of New Guinea, Part VI: Lecithocera sublunata species complex. Entomological Science 15 (1): 68–73. doi:10.1111/j.1479-8298.2011.00462.x.
• Park, K.T., 2012: Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea, Lepidoptera) of New Guinea, Part X: Review of the genus Lecithocera with descriptions of ten new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 15 (2): 313-327.
• Park, K.T., 2012: Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea, Lepidoptera) of New Guinea Part X: Review of the genus Sarisophora, with descriptions of seven new species. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 22 (1): 8-15.
• Park, K.-T. ; J.B. Heppner & Y.-S. Bae, 2013: Two new species of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea), with a revised check list of the family in Taiwan. Zookeys 263: 47-57. Abstract and full article: doi:10.3897/zookeys.263.3781.
• Park, K.T. & S.M. Lee, 1999: A review of the Lecithocerinae and Torodorinae (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) in Korea. Insecta Koreana 16 (2): 119-129.
• Park, K.T. & C.-S. Wu, 2010: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand Part V, with reports of nine species including six new species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 20 (2): 62-70.
• Wu, C.-s. & Y.-q. Liu, 1993: A study of the chinese Lecithocera Herrich-Schaffer,1853 and descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera:Lecithoceridae). Sinozoologia 10: 319-345. Full article: .
• Wu, C.-S. & K.-T. Park, 1999: Taxonomic review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) in Sri Lanka IV.The subfamily Lecithocerinae: genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer and its allies. Insecta Koreana 16 (1): 1-14.

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database