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Lecithocerinae

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Subfamily of moths

Lecithocerinae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Subfamily: Lecithocerinae
Gozmány, 1978

The Lecithocerinae are a subfamily of small moths in the family Lecithoceridae. They are found worldwide, but most species occur in South Asia. The subfamily is characterized by the male genitalia with a bridge-like structure connecting the tegumen and the valva, and the uncus almost always is vestigial with two lobes at the dorsal base, only exceptionally united into a broad plate, but never as a thorn or spine.

Older classifications have treated the family Lecithoceridae as subfamily Lecithocerinae of Gelechiidae.

Taxonomy and systematics

References

  1. Lecithocerinae at funet
Taxon identifiers
Lecithocerinae


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