Comodica

Comodica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Erechthiinae
Genus: Comodica
Meyrick, 1880
Type species
Comodica tetracercella
Meyrick, 1880
Species

11, but see text

Synonyms

Biastolemma J.F.G.Clarke, 1971

Comodica is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Erechthiinae. It is apparently a close relative of the type genus of its subfamily, Erechthias.[1]

It is usually delimited sensu stricto, making it a smallish genus, with 11 species presently placed here:[1]

Erechthias and Comodica are not unequivocally delimited against each other yet. Some species of the former are occasionally placed in the present genus, namely:[2]

Mecomodica fullawayi is also sometimes placed in Comodica; it might alternatively belong in Erechthias or represent a distinct lineage not much closer to either of the two than to the other.[3]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Robinson [2011]
  2. Wikispecies (2011-SEP-04)
  3. ABRS (2010), Robinson [2011], Wikispecies (2011-SEP-04)

References

Data related to Comodica at Wikispecies


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