''Chrysoesthia'' is a
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
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
Gelechiidae
The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable dis ...
.
Species
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Chrysoesthia aletris''
(Walsingham, 1919)
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Chrysoesthia atriplicella''
(Amsel, 1939)
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Chrysoesthia boseae''
(Walsingham, 1908)
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Chrysoesthia candidella''
(Chrétien, 1915)
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Chrysoesthia compositella''
(Chrétien, 1915)
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Chrysoesthia drurella
''Chrysoesthia drurella'' is a moth from the family Gelechiidae. In is found in most of Europe, Russia and North America. ''et al.'' 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes ( ...
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(Fabricius, 1775)
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Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi''
(Staudinger, 1885)
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Chrysoesthia falkovitshi''
Lvovsky & Piskunov, 1989
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Chrysoesthia gaditella
''Chrysoesthia gaditella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Portugal, Spain and Algeria.
The wingspan is 8.5–9 mm.
The larvae feed on ''Atriplex halimus''. They mine
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(Staudinger, 1859)
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Chrysoesthia halymella''
Amsel & Hering, 1931
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Chrysoesthia heringi''
(Kuroko, 1961)
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Chrysoesthia isocharis
''Chrysoesthia isocharis'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in South Africa.
The larvae feed on ''Achyranthes aspera
''Achyranthes aspera'' (common names: chaff-flower, prickly chaff flower, devil's horsewhip, Sanskrit: अ� ...
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(Vári, 1963)
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Chrysoesthia lingulacella
''Chrysoesthia lingulacella'', the silver-banded moth, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1860. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alberta, Arizona, California, Illinoi ...
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(Clemens, 1860)
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Chrysoesthia longifibriata
''Chrysoesthia longifibriata'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the Russian Far East
The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) ...
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M.M. Omelko & N.V. Omelko, 2010
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Chrysoesthia luteola
''Chrysoesthia luteola'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the Russian Far East
The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a ...
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M.M. Omelko & N.V. Omelko, 2010
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Chrysoesthia mimetis
Chrysoethia mimentis is located in Animalia and comes in the class of Insecta. Chhrysoethia mimnetis(also known as C.mimentis) belongs to the family of Gelechiidae. Its genus is Chrysoesthia. Its phylum is Arthropoda and the order is Lepidoptera. I ...
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(Vári, 1963)
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Chrysoesthia parilis
''Chrysoesthia parilis'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Ethiopia.
The larvae feed on ''Achyranthes aspera
''Achyranthes aspera'' (common names: chaff-flower, prickly chaff flower, devil's horsewhip, Sanskrit: अपा� ...
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(Vári, 1963)
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Chrysoesthia sexguttella
''Chrysoesthia sexguttella'', common name the orache leafminer moth, is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in all of Europe, east to southern Siberia, as well as the north-eastern parts of North America, where it might be an introduced ...
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(Thunberg, 1794)
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Chrysoesthia stipelloides
''Chrysoesthia stipelloides'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) and Madagascar.
This species has a wingspan of 10-11mm and was formerly confused by Edward Meyrick with ''Chrysoesthia stipella'' (now ...
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(Janse, 1950)
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Chrysoesthia verrucosa
''Chrysoesthia verrucosa'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and northern Italy. There are also records from Germany and it is possibly also present in Poland.
The wingspan is 8-9.5 ...
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Tokár, 1999
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Chrysoesthia versicolorella
''Chrysoesthia versicolorella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by William D. Kearfott in 1908. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bir ...
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(Kearfott, 1908)
References
* , 1961: Descriptions of ''Microsetia sexguttella'' Thunberg and its allied new species from Japan. (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). ''Esakia'' 3: 1-8.
* ; ; 2009: Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico. ''Zootaxa'', 2231: 1-39
Abstract & excerpt
* , 2010: New find of the Subfamily Anomologinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from the Primorsky district. ''Amurian zoological journal'' II(1): 52-56. (in Russian) Full article
Chrysoesthia,
Apatetrini
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