''Torodora'' 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

Lecithoceridae The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of th ...

. The genus was erected by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...

in 1894.

Distribution and diversity

''Torodora'' is an oriental genus and comprises more than 100 species.

Species

Former species

*'' Torodora isomila'' (Meyrick, 1911) *'' Torodora ortilege'' (Meyrick, 1911)

References

* , 1894, ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1894: 16 * , 2002: Taxonomic review of the genus ''Torodora'' Meyrick in Thailand, with descriptions of fifteen new species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). ''Insecta Koreana'' 19 (2): 147–166. * , 2003: Three new species of ''Lecithoceridae'' (Lepidoptera) from Taiwan. ''Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology'' 6 (1): 15–19. Full article

* , 2006: A taxonomic review of the subfamily ''Torodorinae'' (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) of Vietnam, with descriptions of five new species. ''Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology'' 9 (4): 327–337. * , 2007: Three new species of ''Torodora'' Meyrick, 1894 from Thailand (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). ''SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología'' 35 (137): 23–28. Full article

* , 2008: A review of the ''Torodora recurvata'' species group in the Philippines, with descriptions of ten new species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae), ''Entomological Science'' 11: 359–373. * , 2008: Four new species of ''Torodora'' Meyrick and a new species of ''Antiochtha'' Meyrick from the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). ''Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology'' 11 (2): 89–95. * , 2010: Two new genera, ''Caveana'' gen. nov. and ''Triviola'' gen. nov., and two new ''Torodora'' species from Thailand (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). ''Entomological Science'' 13 (2): 250–257. * , 2010: First Record of ''Torodora'' from Papua New Guinea, with the Description of a New Species (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Lecithoceridae). ''Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington'' 112 (3): 404–409. . * , 2000: Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) of Taiwan (III) Subfamily Torodorinae: genus ''Torodora'' Meyrick. ''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan'' 51 (4): 287–297. Full article

* 1997: A new species of the genus ''Torodora'' from Xizang Autonomous Region (Lepidoptera：Lecithoceridae). ''Acta Entomologica Sinica'' 40 (3): 303–304. Full article

* 2010: Description of a new ''Torodora'' Meyrick, 1894 species from China (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). ''SHILAP Revista de Lepidoptorologia'' 38 (149): 91–95. Full article

External links

* Torodora, Torodorinae Moth genera {{Torodora-stub