Gerontha
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| Gerontha | |
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| Gerontha acrosthenia, Mission Beach, QLD, 20 December 2011 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmecozelinae |
| Genus: | Gerontha Walker, 1864 |
| Type species | |
| Gerontha captiosella Walker, 1864 | |
Gerontha is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[1]
Larvae of Gerontha have been reported boring in the dead wood of Shorea robusta A. DC., Dipterocarpaceae (Fletcher, 1933).[2]
