Corythoxestis
| Corythoxestis | |
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| Corythoxestis zorionella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Subfamily: | Phyllocnistinae |
| Genus: | Corythoxestis Meyrick, 1921 |
| Type species | |
| Heliozela praeustella van Deventer, 1904
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8 species (see text) | |
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Corythoxestis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.[1][2] As with their close relatives, they are small leaf-mining moths.[3]
Species
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There are eight recognized species:[1]
- Corythoxestis aletreuta (Meyrick, 1936)
- Corythoxestis cyanolampra Vári, 1961
- Corythoxestis pentarcha (Meyrick, 1922)
- Corythoxestis praeustella (van Deventer, 1904)
- Corythoxestis sunosei (Kumata, 1998)
- Corythoxestis tricalysiella Kobayashi, Huang & Hirowatari, 2013
- Corythoxestis yaeyamensis (Kumata, 1998)
- Corythoxestis zorionella (Hudson, 1918)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c De Prins, J. & De Prins, W., eds. (2024). "Corythoxestis Meyrick, 1921". Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae. Belspo, Brussels, Belgium: Belgian Biodiversity Platform. doi:10.48580/d4sb-397. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Corythoxestis Meyrick, 1921". Global Lepidoptera Index 1.1.24.347. 30 November 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ Kobayashi, Shigeki; Huang, Guo-Hua; Nakamura, Akihiro & Hirowatari, Toshiya (2013). "Four new species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from China and Japan, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis, Eumetriochroa, Guttigera, and Metriochroa". Zootaxa. 3619 (2): 101–129. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3619.2.1.
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