Epimarptis
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| Epimarptis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Epimarptidae |
| Genus: | Epimarptis Walsingham, 1881 |
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Epimarptis is a genus of moths of the family Epimarptidae, it was previously part of Batrachedridae or others (see below).
The genus was created by Meyrick, 1914 for the species Epermenia philocoma from India.[1][2] The genus remained monotypic until three years later, when Meyrick, 1917 added a second species, this time from Sri Lanka.[3] Here, Meyrick decided to reclassify the genus in the family Epermeniidae. Finally, Meyrick, 1931 described a third species from Assam, eastern India. The genus remained with just three species from the Indian subcontinent until Kazuhiro Sugisima described a fourth new species from Japan in 2004.[4] Whilst specimens of this Japanese moth had been collected numerous times since at least 1975, they had remained without precise identification.[4][5]
Species
The genus contains the following species:[2]
- Epimarptis Meyrick, 1914
- Epimarptis hiranoi Sugisima, 2004 - Japan (Honshu)
- Epimarptis isoloxa Meyrick, 1931 - India (Assam)
- Epimarptis philocoma Meyrick, 1914 - India (Karnataka, possibly Mumbai)
- Epimarptis septicodes Meyrick, 1917 - Sri Lanka (Maskeliya)
