Tachystola

Tachystola
Tachystola acroxantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Subfamily:	Oecophorinae
Genus:	Tachystola Meyrick, 1914
Synonyms
ParocystolaTurner, 1896

Tachystola is a genus of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae), in the Oecophorinae subfamily. It is an Australasian genus of fourteen species with one found in Europe, which is presumably an introduction. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

Species include: ^[2]

• Tachystola ptochodes (Turner 1917)
• Tachystola acroxantha (Meyrick 1885)
• Tachystola insinuata Meyrick 1914
• Tachystola proxena Meyrick 1914
• Tachystola hemisema Meyrick 1885
• Tachystola mulliganae Sterling, Plant & Lees 2023 ^{[3] [4]}
• Tachystola thiasotis Meyrick 1885
• Tachystola pyrsopa Meyrick 1921
• Tachystola oxytora (Meyrick 1885)
• Tachystola anthera (Meyrick 1885)
• Tachystola cerochyta Turner 1940
• Tachystola phaeopyra (Turner 1927)
• Tachystola sidon (Meyrick 1913)
• Tachystola homoleuca Meyrick 1885
• Tachystola enoplia (Meyrick 1885)

References

1. Emmet, A Maitland; Langmaid, John R; Bland, K P; Fletcher, D S; Harley, B H; Robinson, G S; Skinner, Bernard; Tremewan, W S, eds. (2002). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 4, Part 1 . Colchester: Harley Books. ISBN   0-946589-66-6.
2. "Tachystola Meyrick 1914". EOL. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
3. Sterling, Mark J.; Plant, Colin W.; Lees, David C. (2023). "Tachystola mulliganae sp. nov. (Lep.: Oecophoridae), a Western Australian species adventive in West London". The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. 135 (6): 225–24.
4. "Ealing: New species of moth discovered in west London park". BBC News. 5 December 2023.