Dactylethrella
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| Dactylethrella | |
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| Dactylethrella bryophilella | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Anacampsinae |
| Genus: | Dactylethrella T. B. Fletcher, 1940 |
| Synonyms | |
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Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906 nec. Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829 | |
Dactylethrella is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940 and is a replacement name for Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906 (preoccupied by Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829).
The type species of both aforementioned genera is Dactylethra tetroctas Meyrick, 1906 from Sri Lanka, later a junior subjective synonym of Dactylethrella candida (Stainton, 1859).
