''Haplochrois'' 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
Elachistidae, though some classifications place it in the
Agonoxenidae
The Agonoxeninae are a subfamily of moths.
History of classification
Formerly, the subfamily only contained four named species – all in the type genus '' Agonoxena'' – if (e.g. following Nielsen ''et al.'', 1996). Such a monotypic ar ...
,
Coleophoridae or
Cosmopterigidae.
Selected species
* ''
Haplochrois albanica''
(Rebel & Zerny, 1932)
* ''
Haplochrois bipunctella''
(Chambers, 1880)
* ''
Haplochrois buvati''
Baldizzone, 1985
* ''
Haplochrois chlorometalla''
Meyrick, 1897
* ''
Haplochrois coleophorella''
(Sinev, 1993)
* ''
Haplochrois galapagosalis''
Landry, 2001
* ''
Haplochrois ganota''
(Meyrick, 1911)
* ''
Haplochrois gelechiella''
Rebel, 1902
* ''
Haplochrois guttata''
Busck, 1914
* ''
Haplochrois halans''
(Meyrick, 1924)
* ''
Haplochrois hysterota''
(Meyrick, 1918)
* ''
Haplochrois ochraceella''
Rebel, 1903
* ''
Haplochrois otiosa''
Walsingham, 1909
* ''
Haplochrois picropa''
(Meyrick, 1921)
* ''
Haplochrois tanyptera''
Turner, 1923
* ''
Haplochrois thalycra''
Meyrick, 1897
* ''
Haplochrois theae
''Haplochrois theae'' is a species of moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from western Transcaucasia and Anatolia to China. It probably originated from Southeast Asia. During the 20th century, this species was a serious pest on tea plant ...
''
(Kusnezov, 1916)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Elachistidae
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