Cophomantella
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''Cophomantella'' 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 ...
described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940. The name of this genus is a replacement name for ''Cophomantis'' Meyrick.Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge (1940)
"New generic names for microlepidoptera"
''The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation''. 52 (2): 17-1.


Species

*'' Cophomantella alphanozoma'' (Meyrick, 1926) (Sierra Leone and Uganda) *'' Cophomantella artonoma'' (Meyrick, 1936) (from Congo) *'' Cophomantella bifrenata'' (Meyrick, 1921) (South Africa and Tanzania) *'' Cophomantella bythota'' (Meyrick, 1916) (Ghana) *'' Cophomantella crypsizyga'' (Meyrick, 1914) (from Malawi) *'' Cophomantella cubiculata'' (Meyrick, 1911) (Seychelles) *'' Cophomantella cyclopodes'' (Meyrick, 1922) (from Tanzania) *'' Cophomantella elaphopis'' (Meyrick, 1910) (India) *'' Cophomantella eremota'' (Meyrick, 1911) (Sri Lanka) *'' Cophomantella furnaria'' (Meyrick, 1913) (from South Africa) *'' Cophomantella homogramma'' (Meyrick, 1918) (from South Africa) *'' Cophomantella lychnocentra'' (Meyrick, 1904) (Tasmania) *'' Cophomantella myadelpha'' (Meyrick, 1910) (India) *'' Cophomantella osphrantica'' (Meyrick, 1929) (India) *'' Cophomantella pumicata'' (Meyrick, 1929) (India) *'' Cophomantella syngonarcha'' (Meyrick, 1926) (from Uganda)


References

* * Lecithoceridae {{Lecithoceridae-stub