| Cosmopterix macrula | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cosmopterigidae |
| Genus: | Cosmopterix |
| Species: | C. macrula |
| Binomial name | |
| Cosmopterix macrula (Meyrick, 1897) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Cosmopterix macrula is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Australia. [1] [2]
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, tropical savannas in the north, and mountain ranges in the south-east.
The Cosmopterigidae are a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera. These are small moths with narrow wings whose tiny larvae feed internally on the leaves, seeds and stems of their host plants. About 1500 species are described. The taxonomic family is most diverse in the Australian and Pacific region with about 780 species.
Cosmopterix is a large genus of moth in the family Cosmopterigidae.
Cosmopterix attenuatella is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics of both the Old and New World, including the United States, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, Dominica, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, the Canary Islands, Madeira, the Galápagos Islands, Cook Islands, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius and Saint Helena.
Cosmopterix coryphaea is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean region from Spain to Cyprus.
Cosmopterix orichalcea is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from most of Europe east to Japan.
Cosmopterix schmidiella is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found from most of Great Britain to Romania, and from Japan through central Russia to the Iberian Peninsula. It is believed to be extinct in Britain.
Cosmopterix scribaiella is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found from most of Europe to Japan.
Cosmopterix dulcivora is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from China (Jiangxi), Japan, Russia, Fiji, Samoa, the Philippines (Negros), Java and Queensland, Australia.
Cosmopterix trilopha is a moth species of the family Cosmopterigidae which was first described in 1922 by Edward Meyrick. Its type locality is in Uganda; the species is additionally known from Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Cosmopterix chalcelata is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Australia.
Cosmopterix phaesphora is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Australia.
Cosmopterix chlorochalca is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Australia.
Cosmopterix epizona is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Australia and Fiji.
Cosmopterix heliactis is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Australia.
Cosmopterix isoteles is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Australia.
Cosmopterix mystica is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is from Australia.
Cosmopterix aculeata is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from India (Assam), China and Australia.
Cosmopterix cuprea is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1916. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from northern Queensland.
