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| Blastodacna atra | |
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| Family: | Elachistidae (disputed) |
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| Genus: | Blastodacna Wocke, 1876 |
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Blastodacna is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae.
| Blastodacna | |
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| Blastodacna atra | |
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| Family: | Elachistidae (disputed) |
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| Genus: | Blastodacna Wocke, 1876 |
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Blastodacna is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae.
Blastodacna species are found in the Holarctic, although most species are native to the Palearctic.
The genus is mostly placed in the family Elachistidae, but other authors list it as a member of the family Agonoxenidae or even assign it its own family, the Blastodacnidae.
The Agonoxeninae are a subfamily of moths.
The Elachistidae are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and completely unnatural assemblage, united merely by symplesiomorphies retained from the first gelechioid moths.
Acanthoctesia or "archaic sun moths" is an infraorder of insects in the lepidopteran order, containing a single superfamily, Acanthopteroctetoidea, and a single family, Acanthopteroctetidae. They are currently considered the fifth group up on the comb of branching events in the extant lepidopteran phylogeny. They also represent the most basal lineage in the lepidopteran group Coelolepida characterised in part by its scale morphology. Moths in this superfamily are usually small and iridescent. Like other "homoneurous" Coelolepida and non-ditrysian Heteroneura, the ocelli are lost. There are variety of unique structural characteristics. There are two described genera of these primitive moths. Catapterix was originally described within its own family but Acanthopteroctetes shares with it a number of specialised structural features including similar wing morphology.
Cosmopterix is a large genus of moth in the family Cosmopterigidae.
Haplochrois is a genus of moths in the family Elachistidae, though some classifications place it in the Agonoxenidae, Coleophoridae or Cosmopterigidae.
Ressia is a genus of moth in the family Cosmopterigidae.
Elachista is a genus of gelechioid moths described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833. It is the type genus of the grass-miner moth family (Elachistidae). This family is sometimes circumscribed very loosely, including for example the Agonoxenidae and Ethmiidae which seem to be quite distinct among the Gelechioidea, as well as other lineages which are widely held to be closer to Oecophora than to Elachista and are thus placed in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae here.
Stephensia is a genus of the small and very small moths of the family Elachistidae.
Blastodacna atra, the apple pith moth is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is known from most of Europe and it has been introduced to North America.
Perittia is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae.
Blastodacna hellerella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It is found in most of Europe except the north. In the east, the range extends to the Caucasus.
Blastodacna libanotica is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It is found in Anatolia and the Near East.
Chrysoclista is a genus of moths of the family Agonoxenidae described by Henry Tibbats Stainton in 1854.
Microcolona is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae described by Edward Meyrick in 1897.
Mompha is a genus of moths in the family Momphidae that was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. It has four subgenera.
Exaeretia is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is placed in the family Depressariidae, which is often – particularly in older treatments – considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae or included in the Elachistidae.
Parametriotinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Elachistidae.
Blastodacna bicristatella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1875. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Quebec.
Blastodacna curvilineella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1872. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Kentucky, Maine, Ontario and Quebec.
Blastodacna pyrigalla, the pear shoot gall moth or pear fruit borer, is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Yang in 1977. It is found in Korea and China.
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