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''Ceratobia'' is a small
genus
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of the
fungus moth
Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The family contains considerably more than 3,000 species in more than 300 genera. ...
family
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, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the
subfamily
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Tineinae
The Tineinae are a subfamily of moths of the family Tineidae.
Genera
* ''Acridotarsa''
* '' Anomalotinea''
* '' Asymphyla''
* '' Ceratobia''
* '' Ceratophaga''
* '' Ceratuncus''
* '' Crypsithyris''
* '' Crypsithyrodes''
* '' Eccritothrix''
* '' ...
.
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Only five ]species
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are presently contained in this genus:
Footnotes
References
* 011br>Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera)
Retrieved 2011-DEC-22.
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2016. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (acc.04-Mar-2017)
Tineinae
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