Nothris | |
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Nothris congressariella | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Tribe: | Chelariini |
Genus: | Nothris Hübner, 1825 [1] |
Nothris is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae.
Nothris verbascella, the Norfolk snout or clay groundling, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in almost all of Europe, Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, the Near East and the Russian Far East. It had been considered extinct in Britain since 1971, but was rediscovered in Norfolk on 4 September 2024.