''Urodeta'' is a genus of
moths of the family
Elachistidae. The genus was originally assigned to the family
Momphidae
The Momphidae, or mompha moths, is a family of moths with some 115 described species. It was described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1857. These moths tend to be rather small with a wingspan of up to 21 mm. The wings are he ...
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Species
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Urodeta absidata''
Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta acerba''
Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta acinacella
''Urodeta acinacella'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae first described by Jurate De Prins and Virginijus Sruoga in 2012. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Tswaing Crater Reserve in Gauteng.
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J. de Prins & Sruoga, 2012
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Urodeta aculeata''
Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta bucera''
Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta crenata
''Urodeta crenata'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon., 2011: New species of Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ''Zootaxa'' 3008: 1-32. Abstract
The wi ...
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Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta cuspidis''
Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta falciferella''
(Sruoga & De Prins, 2009) (previously in ''Perittia'')
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Urodeta faro''
Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta gnoma
''Urodeta gnoma'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Kenya.
The wingspan
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(Sruoga & De Prins, 2009) (previously in ''Perittia'')
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Urodeta hibernella
''Urodeta hibernella'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is known from France, Corsica and the Iberian Peninsula.
The larvae feed on ''Cistus monspeliensis'' and ''Helianthemum''. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consis ...
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(Staudinger 1859)
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Urodeta inusta
''Urodeta inusta'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in north-western Western Australia.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, t ...
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Kaila, 2011
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Urodeta maculata
''Urodeta maculata'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zam ...
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(Mey, 2007) (previously in ''Phthinostoma'')
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Urodeta noreikai
''Urodeta noreikai'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in the Nepalese Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. T ...
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Sruoga & De Prins, 2013
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Urodeta quadrifida
''Urodeta quadrifida'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Tswaing Crater Reserve in Gauteng.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the dist ...
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J. de Prins & Sruoga, 2012
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Urodeta spatulata
''Urodeta spatulata'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Kenya.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 h ...
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(Sruoga & De Prins, 2009) (previously in ''Perittia'')
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Urodeta taeniata
''Urodeta taeniata'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zam ...
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(Mey, 2007) (previously in ''Phthinostoma'')
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Urodeta talea
''Urodeta talea'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo., 2011: New species of Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ''Zootaxa'' 3008: ...
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Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta tantilla
''Urodeta tantilla'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Kenya
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(Sruoga & De Prins, 2009) (previously in ''Perittia'')
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Urodeta tortuosa
''Urodeta tortuosa'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon., 2011: New species of Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ''Zootaxa'' 3008: 1-32. Abstract
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Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
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Urodeta trilobata
''Urodeta trilobata'' is a moth of the family Elachistidae first described by Jurate De Prins and Virginijus Sruoga in 2012. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Tswaing Crater Reserve in Gauteng.
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J. de Prins & Sruoga, 2012
References
*, 2011: Elachistine Moths of Australia: Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Elachistidae.
*, 2011: New species of Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ''Zootaxa'' 3008: 1-32. Abstract
Elachistidae
Moth genera
{{Elachistidae-stub