Holcopogon

Holcopogon
Holcopogon adseclellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Subfamily: Holcopogoninae
Genus: Holcopogon
Staudinger in Romanoff, 1879
Type species
Holcopogon helveolellus
Staudinger, 1879
Synonyms
  • Cyrmia [lapsus]
  • Cyrnia Walsingham, 1900
  • Epistomotis Meyrick, 1906

Holcopogon is a genus of gelechioid moths. It is the type genus of the subfamily Holcopogoninae, which is placed within the concealer moth family Autostichidae.[1]

The type species was designated as H. helveolellus, but this turned out to be a junior synonym of H. bubulcellus. Some authors have thus erroneously assumed the latter taxon to be the genus' type. Cyrnia is sometimes listed as a distinct genus, but its type species (Cyrnia barbata) is generally assumed to be another junior synonym of H. bubulcellus. Thus, Cyrnia is a junior subjective synonym of Holcopogon.[2]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Holcopogon:[3]

References

  1. ^ FE (2009)
  2. ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004a,b), FE (2009)
  3. ^ "GBIF".

Data related to Holcopogonidae at Wikispecies

Further reading