Trachycentra

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Trachycentra
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Hapsiferinae
Genus: Trachycentra
Meyrick, 1886
Type species
Trachycentra calamias
Meyrick, 1886
Species

11, see text

Synonyms

HarpeptilaA.N.Diakonoff, 1968

Trachycentra is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Hapsiferinae. [1]

With eleven known species, this is one of the smaller genera of fungus moths: [1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Robinson [2011]

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