''Stegasta'' 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
Gelechiidae.
Species
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Stegasta abdita''
Park & Omelko, 1994 (from Siberia)
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Stegasta allactis''
Meyrick, 1904 (from Australia)
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Stegasta biniveipunctata''
(Walsingham, 1897) (from Grenada)
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Stegasta bosqueella
''Stegasta bosqueella'' (red-necked peanutworm moth) is a species of moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.
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(Chambers, 1875) (from North America)
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Stegasta capitella''
(Fabricius, 1794) (from the West Indies)
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Stegasta comissata''
Meyrick, 1923 (from Brazil)
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Stegasta cosmodes''
(Lower, 1899) (from Australia)
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Stegasta francisci
''Stegasta francisci'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Bernard Landry in 2010. It is found on the Galápagos Islands and in continental Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur ...
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Landry, 2010 (from Galapagos)
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Stegasta jejuensis
''Stegasta jejuensis'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Kyu-Tek Park and Mikhail Mikhailovich Omelko in 1994. It is found in the Russian Far East, Korea and Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonko ...
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Park & Omelko, 1994 (from Siberia, Korea, Japan)
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Stegasta postpallescens
''Stegasta postpallescens'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1897. It is found in the West Indies, where it has been recorded from Grenada and Cuba.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird o ...
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(Walsingham, 1897) (from the West Indies)
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Stegasta sattleri
''Stegasta sattleri'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Oleksiy V. Bidzilya and Wolfram Mey in 2011. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Orientale), Ethiopia, Madagascar, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia
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Bidzilya & Mey, 2011 (from Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia)
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Stegasta scoteropis
''Stegasta scoteropis'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in ...
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Meyrick, 1931 (from Brazil)
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Stegasta tenebricosa
''Stegasta tenebricosa'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Turner in 1919. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from southern Queensland.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airp ...
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Turner, 1919 (from Australia)
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Stegasta variana
''Stegasta variana'' is a species of moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Queensland, China, India, Malaysia, Réunion and Africa.
The wingspan is about . The forewings are dark coppery-fuscous with a ferruginous-orange fascia at one-f ...
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Meyrick, 1904 (from Australia, southeast Asia, Africa)
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Stegasta zygotoma
''Stegasta zygotoma'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and on the Galápagos Islands
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane i ...
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Meyrick, 1917 (from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru)
References
Markku Savela's ftp.funet.fiDe Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2015. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (21-Mar-2015)
Gelechiini
Gelechiidae genera
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
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