Tachystola

Genus of moths

Tachystola
Tachystola acroxantha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Genus: Tachystola
Meyrick, 1914
Synonyms

Parocystola Turner, 1896

Tachystola is a genus of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae), in the Oecophorinae subfamily. It is an Australasian genus of fourteen species with one found in Europe, which is presumably an introduction.[1][2]

Species

Species include:[2]

  • Tachystola ptochodes (Turner 1917)
  • Tachystola acroxantha (Meyrick 1885)
  • Tachystola insinuata Meyrick 1914
  • Tachystola proxena Meyrick 1914
  • Tachystola hemisema Meyrick 1885
  • Tachystola mulliganae Sterling, Plant & Lees 2023[3][4]
  • Tachystola thiasotis Meyrick 1885
  • Tachystola pyrsopa Meyrick 1921
  • Tachystola oxytora (Meyrick 1885)
  • Tachystola anthera (Meyrick 1885)
  • Tachystola cerochyta Turner 1940
  • Tachystola phaeopyra (Turner 1927)
  • Tachystola sidon (Meyrick 1913)
  • Tachystola homoleuca Meyrick 1885
  • Tachystola enoplia (Meyrick 1885)

References

  1. ^ Emmet, A Maitland; Langmaid, John R; Bland, K P; Fletcher, D S; Harley, B H; Robinson, G S; Skinner, Bernard; Tremewan, W S, eds. (2002). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 4, Part 1. Colchester: Harley Books. ISBN 0-946589-66-6.
  2. ^ a b "Tachystola Meyrick 1914". EOL. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  3. ^ Sterling, Mark J.; Plant, Colin W.; Lees, David C. (2023). "Tachystola mulliganae sp. nov. (Lep.: Oecophoridae), a Western Australian species adventive in West London". The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. 135 (6): 225–24.
  4. ^ "Ealing: New species of moth discovered in west London park". BBC News. 5 December 2023.
Taxon identifiers
Tachystola


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