Deltophora
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| Deltophora sella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Anomologinae |
| Tribe: | Anomologini |
| Genus: | Deltophora Janse, 1950[1] |
Deltophora is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was originally described from South Africa and based on a taxonomic revision contains about 20 species on all continents except Antarctica.[2] Host plants of larvae and adults are only known for two Chinese species of Deltophora.[3]
Species
[edit]- peltosema species-group
- Deltophora angulella Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora distinctella Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora diversella Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora fasciella Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora peltosema (Lower, 1900)
- Deltophora typica Sattler, 1979
- maculata species-group
- Deltophora beatrix Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora maculata (Staudinger, 1879)
- Deltophora pauperella Sattler, 1979
- stictella species-group
- Deltophora stictella (Rebel, 1927)
- korbi species-group
- Deltophora korbi (Caradja, 1920)
- glandiferella species-group
- Deltophora glandiferella (Zeller, 1873)
- Deltophora sella (Chambers, 1874)
- flavocincta species-group
- Deltophora caymana Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora duplicata Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora flavocincta Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora lanceella Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora minuta Sattler, 1979
- Deltophora suffusella Sattler, 1979
- unknown species-group
- Deltophora digitiformis Li, Li & Wang, 2002
- Deltophora fuscomaculata Park, 1988
- Deltophora gielisia Hull, 1995
- Deltophora quadrativalvata Li, Li & Wang, 2002
Former species
[edit]- Deltophora abrupta Omelko, 1995 is Epichostis abrupta (Omelko, 1995)
References
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- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Sattler K. (1979). A taxonomic revision of the genus Deltophora Janse, 1950 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Bull Br Mus (Nat Hist), Entomol Ser 38: 263–322.
- ^ Luo, Shixiao; Li, Yongquan; Chen, Shi; Zhang, Dianxiang; Renner, Susanne S. (2011). "Gelechiidae Moths Are Capable of Chemically Dissolving the Pollen of Their Host Plants: First Documented Sporopollenin Breakdown by an Animal". PLOS ONE. 6 (4): e19219. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...619219L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019219. PMC 3084278. PMID 21552530.
- Lee, S.; Hodges, R.W.; Brown, R.L. 2009: Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico. Zootaxa, 2231: 1-39. Abstract & excerpt
- Li, Z.-D. ; H.-H. Li & S.-X. Wang, 2002: A systematic study on the genus Deltophora Janse from China (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 27 (1): 129-135.