Levipalpus

Levipalpus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Family: Oecophoridae (disputed)
Subfamily: Depressariinae (disputed)
Genus: Levipalpus
Hannemann, 1953
Type species
Depressaria hepatariella
Lienig & Zeller, 1846

Levipalpus is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is placed in the subfamily Depressariinae, which is often particularly in older treatments considered a distinct family Depressariidae or included in the Elachistidae, but actually seems to belong in the Oecophoridae.[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)

References

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