Deltophora

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Deltophora
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Deltophora sella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Deltophora
Janse 1950 [1]

Deltophora is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was originally described from South Africa and based on a taxonomic revision contains about 20 species on all continents except Antarctica. [2] Host plants of larvae and adults are only known for two Chinese species of Deltophora. [3]

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Ornativalva is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae.

Deltophora typica is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in south-western Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Deltophora diversella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in South Africa, southern Mozambique, Kenya, and Uganda.

Deltophora angulella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Kenya.

Deltophora peltosema is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in India, Sri Lanka and Australia. Records from South Africa and South America are based on misidentifications.

Deltophora distinctella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in India.

Deltophora fasciella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Israel, south-western Saudi Arabia, southern Iran, eastern Afghanistan and possibly Sudan.

Deltophora maculata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Georgia, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan and Greece, as well as on Crete and Cyprus. It has also been recorded from Saudi Arabia, but this is based on a misidentification.

Deltophora beatrix is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in southern Iran.

Deltophora pauperella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in India (Punjab).

Deltophora stictella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Spain, southern France and Italy.

Deltophora korbi is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the Russian Far East and China.

<i>Deltophora sella</i> Species of moth

Deltophora sella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the United States.

Deltophora glandiferella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the United States (Texas) and Mexico.

Deltophora duplicata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the United States (Florida), the Cayman Islands, Mexico (Tamaulipas) and El Salvador.

Deltophora flavocincta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico and Colombia (Magdalena).

Deltophora lanceella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the West Indies (Grenada), Guyana and Brazil (Pará).

Deltophora caymana is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found on the Cayman Islands.

Deltophora minuta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Brazil (Amazon).

Deltophora suffusella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Paraguay (Chaco).

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Sattler K. (1979). A taxonomic revision of the genus Deltophora Janse, 1950 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Bull Br Mus (Nat Hist), Entomol Ser 38: 263–322.
  3. Luo, Shixiao; Li, Yongquan; Chen, Shi; Zhang, Dianxiang; Renner, Susanne S. (2011). "Gelechiidae Moths Are Capable of Chemically Dissolving the Pollen of Their Host Plants: First Documented Sporopollenin Breakdown by an Animal". PLOS ONE. 6 (4): e19219. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...619219L. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019219 . PMC   3084278 . PMID   21552530.