Autosticha

Autosticha
Autosticha gelechid moth (Autosticha pelodes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Autostichidae
Subfamily: Autostichinae
Genus: Autosticha
Meyrick, 1886
Type species
Automola pelodes
Meyrick, 1883
Species

Numerous, see text

Synonyms

[1]
Automola Meyrick, 1883 (non Loew, 1873: preoccupied)
Prosomura Turner, 1919
Epicharma Durrant in Walsingham & Durrant, 1897
Epicoenia Meyrick, 1906
Semnolocha Meyrick, 1936

Autosticha is a genus of gelechioid moths. It belongs to the subfamily Autostichinae, which is either placed in the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae), or in an expanded Autostichidae. It is the type genus of its subfamily (and the Autostichidae). Originally, this genus was named Automola, but this name properly refers to a fly genus in family Richardiidae.[1]

Typically, these moths have the second and third forewing vein emerging from a common stalk. The labial palps are characteristically tapering from the second segment onwards and end in a pointed tip.[2]

Several originally independent genera are now included here, and while most of them are probably not even valid as subgenera, some species included in Autosticha have been historically assigned to entirely different Gelechioidea lineages, such as the long-horned moths (Lecithoceridae) or the Xyloryctidae.[3]

Species

Species of Autosticha are:[4]

Some of these might belong in other genera of Autostichinae, such as the supposedly monotypic Stoeberhinus.

Former species

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Pitkin & Jenkins (2004a), ABRS (2008)
  2. Clarke (1986)
  3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004b)
  4. Clarke (1986), ABRS (2008), Wikispecies (2011-APR-29)

References

Data related to Autosticha at Wikispecies

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