Catalectis Pharetropa
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''Catalectis'' is a small
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of the
fungus moth Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The family contains considerably more than 3,000 species in more than 300 genera. ...
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, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. '' C. pharetropa'' was once mistaken for a species of '' Clepticodes'', and '' Oenoe drosoptila'' of the
Meessiinae The Meessiinae are a subfamily of moth of the family Tineidae. Genera * '' Afrocelestis'' * '' Agnathosia'' * '' Agoraula'' * '' Augolychna'' * '' Bathroxena'' * '' Clinograptis'' * '' Diachorisia'' * '' Doleromorphia'' * '' Drimylastis'' * ''E ...
was also proposed as a species of ''Catalectis''; ít may be that these are all, in fact, closely related.Clarke (1986), Robinson
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Wikispecies (2006-NOV-07)
Only three
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
are presently contained in this genus:Robinson
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/ref> * '' Catalectis flexa'' Bradley, 1957 * '' Catalectis pharetropa'' Meyrick, 1920 (= ''C. clasmatica'') * ''
Catalectis ptilozona ''Catalectis'' is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. '' C. pharetropa'' was once mistaken for a species of '' Clepticodes'', and '' Oenoe ...
'' Meyrick, 1923


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* (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. ''Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology'' 416: 1-485
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br>Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera)
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