Cenoloba
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| Cenoloba | |
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| Cenoloba obliteralis, Moonee Beach, NSW, Australia, 9 October 2025 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineodidae |
| Genus: | Cenoloba Walsingham, 1885 |
Cenoloba is a small moth genus of the family Tineodidae or false plume moths. Lord Walsingham named it in 1885[1] as a plume moth (Pterophoridae) genus to hold Cenoloba obliteralis, a species originally described by Francis Walker in the genus Pterophorus.[2]
There are currently four named species:[2]
- Cenoloba argochalca Meyrick, 1939
- Cenoloba cuprescens Hampson, 1917
- Cenoloba obliteralis (Walker, 1864)
- Cenoloba taprobana Hampson, 1912
