''Laetilia'' is a genus of snout moths. It was described by

Émile Louis Ragonot Émile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 – 13 October 1895) was a French entomologist. In 1885, he became president of the ''Société entomologique de France''. He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly pyralid moths. He is als ...

in 1889.

Biology

The larvae feed on various

scale insects Scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they comprise the infraorder Coccomorpha which is considered a more convenient grouping than the ...

and occasionally flowers of scale infested plants.Cactus Moths and their Relatives
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Species

* '' Laetilia amphimetra'' Meyrick, 1939 * '' Laetilia bellivorella'' Neunzig, 1997 * '' Laetilia cinerosella'' Neunzig, 1997 * ''

Laetilia coccidivora ''Laetilia coccidivora'', the scale-feeding snout moth, is a species of snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particul ...

'' (Comstock, 1879) * '' Laetilia dilatifasciella'' (Ragonot, 1887) * '' Laetilia ephestiella'' (Ragonot, 1887) * '' Laetilia fiskella'' Dyar, 1904 * '' Laetilia glomis'' (Dyar, 1914) * '' Laetilia hebraica'' de Joannis, 1927 * '' Laetilia hulstii'' Cockerell, 1897 * '' Laetilia loxogramma'' (Staudinger, 1870) * '' Laetilia melanostathma'' Meyrick, 1937 * '' Laetilia myersella'' Dyar, 1910 * '' Laetilia obscura'' Dyar, 1918 * '' Laetilia portoricensis'' Dyar, 1915 * '' Laetilia zamacrella'' Dyar, 1925

References

Phycitini Pyralidae genera Taxa named by Émile Louis Ragonot {{Phycitini-stub