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, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. '' C. pharetropa'' was once mistaken for a species of ''

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was also proposed as a species of ''Catalectis''; ít may be that these are all, in fact, closely related.Clarke (1986), Robinson

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Catalectis flexa ''Catalectis'' is a small genus of the fungus moth family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is t ...

'' Bradley, 1957 * ''

Catalectis pharetropa ''Catalectis'' is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. '' C. pharetropa'' was once mistaken for a species of ''Clepticodes'', and ''Oenoe d ...

'' Meyrick, 1920 (= ''C. clasmatica'') * ''

Catalectis ptilozona ''Catalectis'' is a small genus of the fungus moth family (biology), family, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. ''Catalectis pharetropa, C. pharetropa'' was once mistaken for a s ...

'' Meyrick, 1923

Footnotes

References

* (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. ''Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology'' 416: 1-485
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