''Catanomistis'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

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 of the family

Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While many of these moths are tiny, some members of the family grow to a wing ...

. It contains only one species, ''Catanomistis loxophracta'', which is found in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

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References

*Meyrick, 1933a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4. - — 4(12–14):353–448. *Viette, 1955. Etude des types de Microlépidoptères (Tineidae s.l.) malgaches de Meyrick du Muséum de Vienne. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 60:279–286. Xyloryctidae Moths of Madagascar Monotypic moth genera Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Moths described in 1933 Xyloryctidae genera {{Xyloryctidae-stub

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