| Holcocera extensa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Blastobasidae |
| Genus: | Holcocera |
| Species: | H. extensa |
| Binomial name | |
| Holcocera extensa (Meyrick, 1918) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Holcocera extensa is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in South Africa. [1]
The length of the forewings is 8.2–8.5 mm. [2]
Acanthopteroctetidae is a small family of primitive moths with two described genera, Acanthopteroctetes and Catapterix, and a total of seven described species. They are known as the archaic sun moths.
Holcocera is a gelechoid moth genus of the family Blastobasidae. There are about 70 described species.
Phereoeca uterella, known by the vernacular names plaster bagworm and household casebearer, is a moth species in family Tineidae. It occurs in tropical climates, where it is common in houses, and is presumed native to the Neotropical realm. In the Americas, it has been recorded from Brazil, Guyana, and the southern United States as well as the Virgin Islands and Trinidad, and tentatively identified from Tobago.
Eois is a genus of tropical moths in the family Geometridae. It was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818. Caterpillars of Eois species are most commonly green with darker markings, but species with fully dark caterpillars also exist. They are specialized feeders associated with Piperaceae species, with sparse additional records on Chloranthaceae species. Adults are typically small, with diverse wing shape, color and patterning across the genus.
Spulerina lochmaea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa.
Agdistis gibberipennis is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is known from South Africa.
Agdistis lomholdti is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is known from South Africa and Namibia.
Agdistis malitiosa is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Agdistis obstinata is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is known from South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Ethiopia.
Agdistis spinosa is a moth in the family Pterophoridae from South Africa and Namibia.
Agdistis tsumkwe is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is known from South Africa and Namibia.
Perittia is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae. It occurs in Eurasia, North and South Africa, Hawaii, and the Americas.
Galtara extensa is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. It is found on the Comoros and in Madagascar.
Blastobasis determinata is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in South Africa.
Holcocera lignyodes is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in Malawi.
Holcocera irroratella is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in South Africa and Gambia.
Dinometa is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. It was erected by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1927, containing at the time only the species Dinometa maputuana, originally described by Wichgraf in 1906 as Gastroplakaeis maputuana. Two additional species, Dinometa abigailae and Dinometa ethani, were described in 2024 by Alexey Prozorov et al.
Bucculatrix extensa is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It was described by Wolfram Mey in 1999. It is found in Yemen.
Arbelodes is a genus of moths in the family Metarbelidae. The genus occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the greatest diversity in South Africa.
Arbelodes albitorquata is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in South Africa in association with the Drakensberg/Great Escarpment, possibly including the Lesotho Highlands. The habitat consists of Afromontane grassland-forests and grassland-thicket mosaics.
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