Mapsidius
Appearance
Mapsidius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Scythrididae |
Genus: | Mapsidius Walsingham, 1907 |
Species | |
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Mapsidius is a genus of gelechioid moths, which is mostly placed in the flower moth family, which is sometimes included as a subfamily in the Xyloryctidae, or together with these merged into the Oecophoridae.[1] The genus is known only from the Hawaiian Islands.
Species
[edit]- Mapsidius auspicata Walsingham, 1907
- Mapsidius charpentierii Swezey, 1932
- Mapsidius chenopodii Swezey, 1947
- Mapsidius iridescens Walsingham, 1907
- Mapsidius quadridentata Walsingham, 1907
References
[edit]- ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), AEBR (2008), ToL (2008), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2008)