Cophomantella

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Cophomantella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Cophomantella
T. B. Fletcher, 1940 (repl. name)
Synonyms
  • CophomantisMeyrick, 1925

Cophomantella is a genus of moths in the family Lecithoceridae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940. The name of this genus is a replacement name for Cophomantis Meyrick. [1]

Species

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References

  1. Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge (1940). "New generic names for microlepidoptera". The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. 52 (2): 17-1.