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The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are nocturnal Lepidoptera found worldwide, except the Southeast Asian subfamily Ratardinae, which is mostly active during the day.
Phragmataecia castaneae, the reed leopard or giant borer, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1790. It is found in central and southern Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, north-western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, India, Lebanon, Turkey, western China, south-western Siberia, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
Micropterix renatae is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae that was described by Michael A. Kurz, Marion E. Kurz and Hans Christof Zeller-Lukashort in 1997. It is known from the Ligurian Alps, as well as the northern Apennine Mountains.
Aethalopteryx squameus is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, Ghana, Angola and Tanzania.
Zeuzera is an Old World genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Acossus is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Stygia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Catopta is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
The Hypoptinae are a subfamily of the family Cossidae.
The Zeuzerinae are a subfamily of the family Cossidae.
Mirocossus is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae, described by J.W. Schoorl in 1990.
Roepkiella is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Duomitus is a monotypic moth genus in the family Cossidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. Its only species, Duomitus ceramicus, described by Francis Walker in 1865, is found in Yunnan in China and from southern India and Malaysia to Sumatra, Ceram and New Guinea.
Lakshmia is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae endemic to southeast Asia.
Relluna nurella is a moth in the family Cossidae, and the only species in the genus Relluna. It is found in the north-eastern Himalayas, as well as on Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Palawan.
Sinjaeviella is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Skeletophyllon is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Trismelasmos is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Panau is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Sansara is a genus of moths in the family of Cossidae.
References
- ↑ Yakovlev, R.V., 2011: Catalogue of the Family Cossidae of the Old World. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 66: 1-129.
- ↑ Afro Moths