Ascalenia

Ascalenia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Subfamily:	Chrysopeleiinae
Genus:	Ascalenia Wocke, 1877
Synonyms
Cholotis Meyrick, 1911

Ascalenia is a genus of moths in the family Cosmopterigidae.

Species

• Ascalenia acaciella Chretien, 1915
• Ascalenia albitergis Meyrick, 1926
• Ascalenia antiqua Meyrick, 1925
• Ascalenia archaica Meyrick, 1917
• Ascalenia beieri Kasy, 1968
• Ascalenia bialbipunctella Legrand, 1965
• Ascalenia bifasciella Chrétien, 1915
• Ascalenia callynella Kasy, 1968
• Ascalenia centropselia Meyrick, 1931
• Ascalenia crypsiloga Meyrick, 1915
• Ascalenia decolorella Sinev, 1984
• Ascalenia echidnias (Meyrick, 1891)
• Ascalenia epicrypta Meyrick, 1915
• Ascalenia exodroma (Meyrick, 1897)
• Ascalenia gastrocosma Meyrick, 1931
• Ascalenia grisella Kusnetzov, 1957
• Ascalenia icriota Meyrick, 1915
• Ascalenia imbella Kasy, 1975
• Ascalenia isotacta Meyrick, 1911
• Ascalenia jerichoella Amsel, 1935
• Ascalenia kabulella Kasy, 1969
• Ascalenia kairaella Kasy, 1969
• Ascalenia liparophanes Meyrick, 1932
• Ascalenia melanogastra (Meyrick, 1918)
• Ascalenia molifera Meyrick, 1915
• Ascalenia nudicornis (Meyrick, 1913)
• Ascalenia pachnodes Meyrick, 1917
• Ascalenia pancrypta (Meyrick, 1915)
• Ascalenia phaneracma Meyrick, 1921
• Ascalenia plumbata (Meyrick, 1915)
• Ascalenia praediata Meyrick, 1922
• Ascalenia pseudofusella Legrand, 1965
• Ascalenia pulverata (Meyrick, 1913)
• Ascalenia revelata Meyrick, 1922
• Ascalenia scotochalca Meyrick, 1934
• Ascalenia secretifera Meyrick, 1932
• Ascalenia semnostola (Meyrick, 1897)
• Ascalenia sirjanella Kasy, 1975
• Ascalenia spermatica Meyrick, 1915
• Ascalenia staurocentra (Meyrick, 1915)
• Ascalenia subusta Meyrick, 1921
• Ascalenia synclina Meyrick, 1908
• Ascalenia thoracista Meyrick, 1915
• Ascalenia unifasciella Kasy, 1969
• Ascalenia vadata Meyrick, 1922
• Ascalenia vanella (Frey, 1860)
• Ascalenia vanelloides Gerasimov, 1930
• Ascalenia viviparella Kasy, 1969

Former species

• Ascalenia antidesma
• Ascalenia ceanothiella Meyrick, 1915
• Ascalenia cardinata
• Ascalenia conformata
• Ascalenia eremella
• Ascalenia heterosticta Meyrick, 1917
• Ascalenia leucomelanella
• Ascalenia maculatella
• Ascalenia noviciata
• Ascalenia oranella
• Ascalenia phalacra Meyrick, 1909
• Ascalenia satellita
• Ascalenia seeboldiella
• Ascalenia signatella
• Ascalenia stagnans
• Ascalenia tergipunctella

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Ascalenia at Fauna Europaea
• Ascalenia at Afro Moths
• Revised Checklist of Cosmopterigidae in Neotropical Region
• (in German) Kasy; 1969/ Vorläufige Revision der Gattung Ascalenia Wocke (Lepidoptera, Walshiidae)