Catalectis
Genus of moths
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Catalectis is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. C. pharetropa was once mistaken for a species of Clepticodes, and Oenoe drosoptila of the Meessiinae was also proposed as a species of Catalectis; ít may be that these are all, in fact, closely related.[1]
| Catalectis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Genus: | Catalectis Meyrick, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Catalectis pharetropa Meyrick, 1920 | |
| Species | |
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3, see text | |
Only three species are presently contained in this genus:[2]
- Catalectis flexa Bradley, 1957
- Catalectis pharetropa Meyrick, 1920 (= C. clasmatica)
- Catalectis ptilozona Meyrick, 1923
