''Comadia'' is a genus of

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s in the family

Cossidae The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are Lepidopter ...

first described by

William Barnes William Barnes (22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886) was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a co ...

and

James Halliday McDunnough James Halliday McDunnough (10 May 1877 – 23 February 1962) was a Canadians, Canadian Linguistics, linguist, musician, and Entomology, entomologist best known for his work with North American Lepidoptera, but who also made important contributio ...

in 1911.

Species

* '' Comadia albistrigata'' Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 * '' Comadia alleni'' Brown, 1975 * ''

Comadia arenae ''Comadia arenae'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California. The forewing Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are foun ...

'' Brown, 1975 * ''

Comadia bertholdi ''Comadia bertholdi'', the lupine borer moth, is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Washington, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico. The length of the forewin ...

'' Grote, 1880 * ''

Comadia dolli ''Comadia dolli'' is a moth in the family Cossidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1923. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico. The forewing ...

'' Barnes & Benjamin, 1923 * ''

Comadia henrici ''Comadia henrici'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airpla ...

'' Grote, 1882 * ''

Comadia intrusa ''Comadia intrusa'' is a moth in the family Cossidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1923. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from New Mexico, Arizona and California. The forewing Ins ...

'' Barnes & Benjamin, 1923 * ''

Comadia manfredi ''Comadia manfredi'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona and New Mexico, as well as Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern regi ...

'' Neumann, 1884 * ''

Comadia redtenbacheri ''Comadia redtenbacheri'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded in Mexico and southern Texas. The moth was first named in 1848 by Austrian entomologist Carl Eduard Hammerschmidt (1800–1874) ...

'' Hammerschmidt, 1848 * ''

Comadia speratus ''Comadia'' is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae species description, first described by William Barnes (entomologist), William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1911. Species * ''Comadia albistrigata'' Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 * '' ...

'' Brown, 1975 * ''

Comadia suaedivora ''Comadia suaedivora'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California. The forewing Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are ...

'' Brown & Allen, 1973 * ''

Comadia subterminata ''Comadia subterminata'' is a moth in the family Cossidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1923. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. The forewi ...

'' Barnes & Benjamin, 1923

References

* , 1975: A revision the North American ''Comadia'' (Cossidae). ''The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera'', 14 (4): 180–212. Full article

External links

* Cossinae Cossidae genera {{Cossinae-stub