''Blastobasis'' is the
type genus of the
gelechioid moth
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Gelechioidea (from the type genus ''Gelechia'', "keeping to the ground") is the Taxonomic rank, superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. ...
family Blastobasidae
The Blastobasidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Its species can be found almost anywhere in the world, though in some places they are not native but introduced by humans. In some arrangements, these moths are included in t ...
; in some arrangements these are placed in the
case-bearer
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The Coleophoridae are a family of small moths, belonging to the huge superfamily Gelechioidea. Collectively known as case-bearers, casebearing moths or case moths, this family is represented on all continents, but the majority are found ...
family (Coleophoridae) as a subfamily. Within the Blastobasidae, the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
Blastobasinae (or
tribe Blastobasini, if united with the concealer moths) has been established to distinguish the ''Blastobasis'' lineage from the group around ''
Holcocera
''Holcocera'' is a gelechoid moth genus of the family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to m ...
'', but the delimitation is not yet well-resolved.
The
monophyly of this genus – the largest of its family, containing at present about half the described Blastobasidae species – is seriously in doubt. Many presumed relatives have been separated in small or even
monotypic genera, which may actually represent specialized lineages within the ''Blastobasis'' assemblage. On the other hand, some formerly-independent genera are usually included in ''Blastobasis'' at the moment. ''
Agnoea
''Pseudatemelia'' is a genus of gelechioid moths.
Taxonomy
In the systematic layout used here, it is placed in the subfamily Amphisbatinae of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). Delimitation of Amphisbatinae versus the closely related Depr ...
'', ''
Auximobasis'', ''Euresia'' and ''
Zenodochium'' are sometimes included here but considered distinct by other authors.
Species
Species of ''Blastobasis'' include:
[FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2001)]
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Blastobasis abollae''
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Blastobasis acarta
''Blastobasis acarta'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found on the Seychelles, where it is known from the islands of Aldabra, Aride, Mahé and Silhouette
A silhouette ( , ) is the ...
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Meyrick, 1911
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Blastobasis achaea''
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Blastobasis acirfa
''Blastobasis acirfa'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in Kenya., et al. 2010: A Review of African Blastobasinae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Coleophoridae), with New Taxa Reared from Native Fruits in Kenya. ''Smithsonian Cont ...
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Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis adustella
''Blastobasis adustella'' is a species of moth of the family Blastobasidae. It is endemic to Australian region, but was introduced in western Europe and is now reported from The Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, Madeira and the Azores
Descrip ...
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Blastobasis aedes''
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Blastobasis aequivoca
''Blastobasis aequivoca'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Guyana.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Blastobasis
Moths described in 1922
Mo ...
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Meyrick, 1922
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Blastobasis albidella
''Blastobasis albidella'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It was described by Hans Rebel in 1928. It is found in Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of No ...
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Rebel, 1928
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Blastobasis anachasta
''Blastobasis anachasta'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country ...
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Meyrick, 1931
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Blastobasis anthoptera
''Blastobasis anthoptera'' is a moth of the family Blastobasidae. It is found in Australia and New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Loc ...
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Blastobasis aphanes
''Blastobasis aphanes'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller
Philipp Christoph Zeller (8 April 1808 – 27 March 1883) was a German entomologist.
Zeller was born at Steinheim an der Murr, Wür ...
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Zeller, 1877
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Blastobasis aphilodes
''Blastobasis aphilodes'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur en ...
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Meyrick, 1918
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Blastobasis argillacea''
Walsingham, 1897
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Blastobasis athymopa''
Meyrick, 1932
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Blastobasis atlantella''
Zerny, 1935
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Blastobasis atmosema''
Meyrick, 1930
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Blastobasis atmozona''
Meyrick, 1939
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Blastobasis aynekiella''
Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis babae''
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Blastobasis balucis''
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Blastobasis basipectenella''
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Blastobasis bassii''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis beo''
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Blastobasis bilineatella''
Lucas, 1956
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Blastobasis bispinaella''
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Blastobasis bromeliae''
(Walsingham, 1912)
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Blastobasis byrsodepta''
Meyrick, 1913
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Blastobasis caetrae''
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Blastobasis candidata''
Meyrick, 1922
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Blastobasis catappaella''
Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis centralasiae''
Sinev, 2007
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Blastobasis chanes''
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Blastobasis chloroptris''
Meyrick, 1931
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Blastobasis christou''
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Blastobasis chuka''
Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis cineracella''
Amsel, 1953
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Blastobasis coffeaella''
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Blastobasis commendata''
Meyrick, 1922
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Blastobasis confamulella
''Blastobasis confamulella'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae
The Blastobasidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Its species can be found almost anywhere in the world, though in some places they are not native but in ...
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Blastobasis confectella
''Blastobasis confectella'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae
The Blastobasidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Its species can be found almost anywhere in the world, though in some places they are not native but int ...
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Blastobasis controversella''
Zeller, 1877
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Blastobasis cophodes''
Meyrick, 1918
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Blastobasis crassifica''
Meyrick, 1916
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Blastobasis crypsimorpha''
Meyrick, 1922
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Blastobasis curta''
Meyrick, 1916
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Blastobasis custodis''
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Blastobasis dapis''
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Blastobasis deae''
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Blastobasis decolor''
Meyrick, 1907
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Blastobasis decolorella''
Wollaston, 1858
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Blastobasis deliciolarum''
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Blastobasis desertarum''
(Wollaston, 1858)
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Blastobasis determinata''
Meyrick, 1921
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Blastobasis dicionis''
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Blastobasis divisus''
(Walsingham, 1894)
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Blastobasis drymosa''
Adamski & Li, 2010
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Blastobasis dyssema''
Turner, 1918
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Blastobasis echus''
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Blastobasis egens''
Meyrick, 1918
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Blastobasis elgonae''
Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis episema''
Turner, 1918
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Blastobasis erae''
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Blastobasis ergastulella''
Zeller, 1877
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Blastobasis eridryas''
Meyrick, 1932
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Blastobasis evanescens''
Walsingham, 1901
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Blastobasis exclusa''
(Walsingham, 1908)
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Blastobasis fatigata''
Meyrick, 1914
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Blastobasis fax''
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Blastobasis floridella''
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Blastobasis furtivus''
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Blastobasis fuscomaculella''
Ragonot, 1879
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Blastobasis glandulella'' – "acorn moth"
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Blastobasis glauconotata''
Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis gracilis''
Walsingham, 1897
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Blastobasis graminea''
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Blastobasis grenadensis''
Walsingham, 1897
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Blastobasis helleri''
Rebel, 1910
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Blastobasis homadelpha''
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Blastobasis huemeri''
Sinev, 1994
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Blastobasis ianella''
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Blastobasis inana''
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Blastobasis incuriosa''
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Blastobasis inderskella''
Caradja, 1920
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Blastobasis indigesta''
Meyrick, 1931
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Blastobasis indirecta''
Meyrick, 1935
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Blastobasis industria''
Meyrick, 1913
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Blastobasis inouei''
Moriuti, 1987
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Blastobasis insularis''
(Wollaston, 1858)
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Blastobasis intrepida''
Meyrick, 1911
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Blastobasis invigorata''
(Meyrick, 1932)
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Blastobasis iuanae''
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Blastobasis kenya''
Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis lacticolella
''Blastobasis lacticolella'' is a species of moth of the family Blastobasidae. It was introduced in western Europe and is now reported from the Netherlands, Great Britain , Ireland and Madeira.
Description
The wingspan
The wingspan (or j ...
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Blastobasis laurisilvae''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis lavernella''
Walsingham, 1894
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Blastobasis lecaniella''
Busck, 1913
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Blastobasis legrandi''
Adamski, 1995
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Blastobasis leucogonia''
Zeller, 1877
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Blastobasis leucotoxa''
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Blastobasis leucozyga''
Meyrick, 1936
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Blastobasis lex''
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Blastobasis litis''
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Blastobasis lososi''
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Blastobasis luteella''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis lutiflua''
Meyrick, 1922
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Blastobasis lygdi''
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Blastobasis magna''
Amsel, 1952
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Blastobasis manto''
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Blastobasis marmorosella''
(Wollaston, 1858)
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Blastobasis maroccanella''
Amsel, 1952
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Blastobasis millicentae''
Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis mnemosynella''
Millière, 1876
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Blastobasis moffetti''
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Blastobasis molinda''
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Blastobasis monozona''
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Blastobasis mpala''
Adamski, 2010
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Blastobasis murcyae''
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Blastobasis neniae''
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Blastobasis neozona''
Meyrick, 1918
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Blastobasis nephelias''
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Blastobasis nephelophaea''
Meyrick, 1931
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Blastobasis neptes''
(Walsingham, 1912)
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Blastobasis nigromaculata''
(Wollaston, 1858)
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Blastobasis nivis''
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Blastobasis normalis''
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Blastobasis nothrotes''
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Blastobasis ochreopalpella''
(Wollaston, 1858)
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Blastobasis ochrobathra''
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Blastobasis ochromorpha''
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Blastobasis orithyia''
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Blastobasis orladelaneae''
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Blastobasis pacalis''
Meyrick, 1922
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Blastobasis pallescens''
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Blastobasis paludis''
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Blastobasis pannonica''
Sumpich & Liska, 2011
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Blastobasis parki''
Sinev, 1986
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Blastobasis pentasticta''
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Blastobasis phaedra''
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Blastobasis phaeopasta''
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Blastobasis phycidella
''Blastobasis phycidella'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in most of Europe (except Fennoscandia, Latvia, Estonia, Ireland and Iceland).
The wingspan is 17–19 mm. There is probably one generation per year with adul ...
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(Zeller, 1839)
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Blastobasis pica''
(Walsingham, 1894)
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Blastobasis ponticella''
Sinev, 2007
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Blastobasis proagorella''
Zeller, 1877
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Blastobasis pulchella
''Blastobasis pulchella'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae
The Blastobasidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Its species can be found almost anywhere in the world, though in some places they are not native but intro ...
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Blastobasis quaintancella''
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Blastobasis rebeli
''Blastobasis rebeli'', the marsh dowd moth, is a moth in the family Blastobasidae found on Madeira. It was first recorded from Hampshire, Great Britain in 1998 and there have been subsequent records from the same area and nearby, as well as in W ...
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Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis repartella
''Blastobasis repartella'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae
The Blastobasidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Its species can be found almost anywhere in the world, though in some places they are not native but intr ...
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Blastobasis retectella''
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Blastobasis rosmarinella''
Walsingham, 1901
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Blastobasis rotae''
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Blastobasis rotullae''
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Blastobasis rubiginosella''
Rebel, 1896
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Blastobasis salebrosella''
Rebel, 1940
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Blastobasis sardinica''
Sumpich, 2012
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Blastobasis sciota''
Bradley, 1961
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Blastobasis scotia''
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Blastobasis semilutea''
Meyrick, 1916
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Blastobasis serradaguae''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis sinica''
Adamski & Li, 2010
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Blastobasis spectabilella''
Rebel, 1940
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Blastobasis spermologa''
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Blastobasis spiniella''
Park, 2000
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Blastobasis splendens''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis sprotundalis''
Park, 1984
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Blastobasis subdivisus''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis subolivacea''
Walsingham, 1897
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Blastobasis suppletella''
Zeller, 1877
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Blastobasis syrmatodes''
Meyrick, 1922
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Blastobasis tabernatella
''Blastobasis tabernatella'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae
The Blastobasidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Its species can be found almost anywhere in the world, though in some places they are not native but int ...
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(Legrand, 1966)
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Blastobasis tanyptera''
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Blastobasis tapetae''
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Blastobasis tarachodes''
(Walsingham, 1912)
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Blastobasis tarda''
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Blastobasis taricheuta''
Meyrick, 1909
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Blastobasis taurusella''
Adamski, 2004
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Blastobasis thyone''
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Blastobasis trachelista''
Meyrick, 1921
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Blastobasis transcripta''
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Blastobasis triangularis''
Walsingham, 1897
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Blastobasis tridigitella''
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Blastobasis usurae''
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Blastobasis velutina''
Walsingham, 1908
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Blastobasis vesta''
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Blastobasis virgatella''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis vittata
''Blastobasis vittata'' is a moth of the family Blastobasidae. It was thought to be endemic to Madeira but is now known to inhabit the Netherlands, France, the Channel Islands, England and Northern Ireland.
Taxonomy
The name ''Blastobasis lign ...
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Blastobasis walsinghami''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis wolffi''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis wollastoni''
Sinev & Karsholt, 2004
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Blastobasis xiphiae''
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Blastobasis yuccaecolella''
Footnotes
References
* (2008): Australian Faunal Directory &ndash
''Blastobasis'' Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2010-APR-28.
* (2009)
''Blastobasis'' Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-APR-28.
* (2004)
Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species&ndash
''Blastobasis'' Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-APR-28.
* (2001): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash
Version of 2001-NOV-07. Retrieved 2010-APR-28.
* (2008)
Coleophoridae Version of 2008-MAY-01. Retrieved 2010-APR-28.
* , 2013: Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae). ''Zootaxa'' 3618 (1): 1-223. Review and full article:
* , 2002: New species of ''Blastobasis'' Zeller from New Caledonia and Fiji (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Coleophoridae: Blastobasinae). ''Insecta Koreana'' 19 (2): 137-145.
* , 2010: Three new species of Blastobasinae moths from Beijing, China (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Coleophoridae). ''Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologica'' 38 (151): 341-351.
* , 2010: A review of African Blastobasinae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Coleophoridae), with new taxa reared from native fruits in Kenya. ''Smithsonian contributions to Zoology'' 630: 1-68. Full article
* , 2004: Contribution of the Lepidoptera fauna of the Madeira Islands. Part 4. Blastobasidae. ''Beiträge zur Entomologie'' 54 (2): 387-463.
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Blastobasis,
Blastobasidae genera
Taxa named by Philipp Christoph Zeller