''Callicerastis stagmatias'' is a
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. ...
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family
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Tineidae) of the
subfamily Erechthiinae
The Erechthiinae are a subfamily of moth of the family Tineidae.
Genera
* '' Anastathma''
* '' Callicerastis'' (sometimes in ''Erechthias'')
* '' Comodica''
* ''Erechthias'' Meyrick, 1880
* '' Mecomodica'' (sometimes in ''Comodica'' or ''Erecht ...
.
It is provisionally separated in the
monotypic
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genus
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''Callicerastis'', but it may belong in the related larger genus ''
Erechthias
''Erechthias'' is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Erechthiinae, of which it is the type genus. The exact circumscription of this genus is still disputed, but it may encompass more than 150 speci ...
''.
Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
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References
Butterflies and Moths of the World - Generic Names and their Type-species
* (2010): Australian Faunal Directory &ndash
''Erechthias''
Version of 2010-NOV-15. Retrieved 2011-DEC-23.
Erechthiinae
Tineidae genera
Monotypic moth genera
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