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the web of life in southern Africa

Subfamily: Gracillariinae

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Phylum: Arthopoda > Mandibulata > Atelocerata > Panhexapoda > Hexapoda > Insecta (insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola > Holometabola > Panorpida > Amphiesmenoptera > Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) > Glossata > Coelolepida > Myoglossata > Neolepidoptera > Heteroneura > Distrysia > Gracillarioidea > Gracillariidae

Genera native to southern Africa

List from Vári et al. (2002).

Acrocercops

 

Amblyptila

 

Apistoneura

One species native to southern Africa: Apistoneura psarochroma

 

Aristaea

 

Aspilapteryx

One species native to southern Africa: Aspilapteryx seriata

 

Callicercops

One species native to southern Africa: Callicercops triceros

 

Caloptilia

 

Calybites

One species native to southern Africa: Calybites crypta

 

Conopobathra

 

Conopomorphina

 

Corethrovalva

 

Cryptolectica

 

Cuphodes

 

Dialectica

 

Diphtheroptila

 

Dysectopa

One species native to southern Africa: Dysectopa scalifera

 

Ectropina

 

Epicephala

 

Graphiocephala

 

Lamprolectica

One species native southern Africa: Lamprolectica apicistrigata

 

Leucocercops

One species native to southern Africa: Leucocercops dasmophora

 

Liocrobyla

One species native to southern Africa: Liocrobyla tephrosiae

 

Macarostola

 

Metacercops

One species native to southern Africa: Metacercops praestricta

 

Oligoneurina

One species native to southern Africa: Oligoneurina ficicola

 

Pareclectis

 

Pleiomorpha

 

Pogonocephala

One species native to southern Africa: Pogonocephala veneranda

 

Polydema

 

Polysoma

 

Sauterina

One species native to southern Africa: Sauterina thrypticosema

 

Schedocercops

One species native to southern Africa: Schedocercops maeruae

 

Spulerina

 

Stomphastis

 

Systoloneura

One species native to southern Africa: Systoloneura randiae

 

Publications

  • VÁRI, L., KROON, D.M., & KRÜGER, M. 2002. Classification and checklist of the species of Lepidoptera recorded in southern Africa. Simple Solutions, Chatswood Australia.