''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''
Landry, 2010 (from Galapagos)
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Stegasta jejuensis''
Park & Omelko, 1994 (from Siberia, Korea, Japan)
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Stegasta postpallescens''
(Walsingham, 1897) (from the West Indies)
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Stegasta sattleri''
Bidzilya & Mey, 2011 (from Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia)
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Stegasta scoteropis''
Meyrick, 1931 (from Brazil)
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Stegasta tenebricosa''
Turner, 1919 (from Australia)
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Stegasta variana''
Meyrick, 1904 (from Australia, southeast Asia, Africa)
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Stegasta zygotoma''
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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