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Parornix

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Parornix
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Subfamily: Parornichinae
Genus: Parornix
Spuler, 1910
Species

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Synonyms
  • Alfaornix Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Betaornix Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Deltaornix Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Gammaornix Kuznetzov, 1979
Parornix

Parornix is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae. The genus was raised by the German entomologist Arnold Spuler in 1910.

Species

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Taxonomy

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The genus Paronix comes from para, meaning alongside and ornix named after the genus Ornix Treitschke, 1833, which refers to ornis, a bird. The genus Ornix originally included a wide range of feathery-winged microlepidoptera in the Coleophoridae and the Gracillariidae. Ornix was an early synonym of the genus Coleophora as a number of moths were named after birds. The feathery-winged moths were later restricted to Paronix. [1]

Reference

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  1. ^ Emmet, A Maitland (1991). The Scientific Names of the British Lepidoptera. Their history and meaning. Colchester: Harley Books. pp. 63, 74 &75. ISBN 0 946589 35 6.
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