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Pexicopiinae
Apatetrinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The subfamily was described by Edward Meyrick in 1947. Taxonomy and systematics *Tribe Apatetrini **''Apatetris'' Staudinger, 1880 **''Dactylotula'' Cockerell, 1888 **''Catatinagma'' Rebel, 1903 **''Chrysoesthia'' Hübner, [1825] **''Coloptilia'' T. B. Fletcher, 1940 **''Epidola'' Staudinger, 1859 **''Epiphthora'' Meyrick, 1888 **''Metanarsia'' Staudinger, 1871 **''Oecocecis'' Guenée, 1870 *Tribe Pexicopiini Hodges, 1986 **''Anisoplaca'' Meyrick, 1886 **''Aspades'' Vári in Vári & Kroon, 1986 **''Coleostoma'' Meyrick, 1922 **''Decatopseustis'' Meyrick, 1925 **''Epilechia'' Busck, 1939 **''Ficulea'' Walker, 1864 **''Galtica'' Busck, 1914 **''Isembola'' Meyrick, 1926 **''Lacistodes'' Meyrick, 1921 **''Leistogenes'' Meyrick, 1927 **''Macracaena'' Common, 1958 **''Mometa'' Durrant, 1914 **''Pectinophora'' Busck, 1917 **''Pexicopia'' Common, 1958 **''Phrixocrita'' Meyrick, 1935 **''Platyedra'' Meyrick, 1895 **''Porpodryas' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Edward Meyrick came from a clerical family and was born in Ramsbury on 25 November 1854 to the Rev. Edward Meyrick, until his marriage earlier that year a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and his wife Mary Batson of Ramsbury. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He actively pursued his hobby during his schooling, and one colleague stated in 1872 that Meyrick "has not left a lamp, a paling, or a tree unexamined in which a moth could possibly, at any stage of its existence, lie hid." Meyrick began publishing notes on microlepidopterans in 1875, but when in December, 1877 he gained a post at The King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales, there were greater opportunities for indulging his interest. He st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |