''Calicotis'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s in the family
Stathmopodidae
Stathmopodidae is a family of moths in the moth superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1913.
Taxonomy and systematics
*'' Actinoscelis'' Meyrick, 1912
*'' Aeoloscelis'' Meyrick, 1897
*'' Arauzona'' Walker, 865/small>
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, although it is sometimes included in the family
Oecophoridae
Oecophoridae (concealer moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this.
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.
Species
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Calicotis animula''
Meyrick, 1911 (from the Seychelles)
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Calicotis attiei''
(Guillermet, 2011) (from China, Japan, Réunion, Taiwan)
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Calicotis crucifera''
Meyrick, 1889 (from New Zealand/Australia)
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Calicotis exclamationis'' Terada, 2016 (from Japan, Taiwan)
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Calicotis griseella''
Sinev, 1988 (from Russia)
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Calicotis luteella''
Sinev, 1988 (from Russia)
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Calicotis microgalopsis''
Lower, 1904 (from Australia)
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Calicotis praeusta''
Meyrick, 1922 (from Fiji)
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Calicotis rhizomorpha''
Meyrick, 1927 (from Samoa)
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Calicotis rotundinidus''
Terada, 2016 (from Japan, Taiwan)
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Calicotis sialota''
Turner, 1917 (from Australia)
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Calicotis triploesta''
Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
References
Zong-Yu Shen, Takeshi Terada and Yu-Feng Hsu, 2022. The Newly Recorded Fern-spore Feeding Moths in the Genus Calicotis, Meyrick 1889 (Lepidoptera: Stathmopodidae) from Taiwan, with Notes on Life History of Three Species.
Bippus, 2020. Records of Lepidoptera from the Malagasy region with description of new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Noctuidae, Alucitidae, Choreutidae, Euteliidae, Gelechiidae, Blastobasidae, Pterophoridae, Tonzidae. - Phelsuma
Moth genera
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