Afrocelestis

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Afrocelestis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Scardiinae
Genus: Afrocelestis
Gozmány, 1965 [1]
Type species
Afrocelestis evertata
Gozmány, 1965 [1]

Afrocelestis is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. [2]

The name of this genus is derived from Africa+Celestis Meyrick.

It contains small species. Hairs loose, wings short and broad, cilia long. The species have whitish or yellowish ground coloration, the pattern is brownish, consisting of indistinct marginal spots and some transversal striae or stripes.

Male genitalia: resembling Celestica but uncus bilobate and strongly sclerotized. Tegumen very narrow dorsally, valvae tripartite into various shaped lobes of a complicate structure; no gnathos; aedeagus about as long as saccus, tubular and simple, no cornuti or coremata. [3]

Species

Some species of this genus are: [4]

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Afrocelestis evertata is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was described by Hungarian entomologist László Anthony Gozmány in 1965 and is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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References

  1. 1 2 Bálint, Zsolt; Katona, Gergely; Kun, Andras (2011). "The scientific publications of Dr László Gozmány (1921-2006) on Lepidoptera with a revised bibliography and an annotated list of taxon names he proposed". Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 103: 373–428 (383, 422). Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
  3. ↑ Gozmány, 1965. Four new Tineid Genera from Central Africa. - Lambillionea 64(1–4):2–8.
  4. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2015. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (acc.19-Aug-2015)


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