Lysitona

Lysitona is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[4] As of 2018, it contains only one species, Lysitona euryacta, which is found in Mozambique.[5]

Lysitona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Lysitona
Meyrick, 1918[1]
Type species
Lysitona euryacta
Meyrick, 1918[1]
Species
  • L. euryacta Meyrick, 1918
Synonyms[2]

Genus:

  • Isozyga Meyrick, 1921[3]

Species:

  • Isozyga phasganopa Meyrick, 1921[3]

References
  1. Meyrick, E. (1918). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6 (2): 57.
  2. Janse, A. J. T. (1968). "Key to the Genera of Tineidae Including Incurvariidae as Compiled and Used by E. Meyrick". On the Types of South African Microlepidoptera Described by the Late Edward Meyrick and Preserved in the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria and the South African Museum, Cape Town. Volume I. Tineidæ. Transvaal Museum Memoirs. 16. pp. 53–54, 56–57. hdl:10520/AJA0000012_227.
  3. Meyrick, E. (1921). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 130.
  4. Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
  5. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Lysitona euryacta Meyrick, 1918". Afromoths. Retrieved 19 April 2018.


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