''Cophomantella'' 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
Lecithoceridae
The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of the ...
described by
Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher
Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher (25 March 1878 – 30 April 1950) was an English entomologist. Although an amateur lepidopterist who worked in the Royal Navy, he became an expert on "microlepidoptera" and was appointed as the second Imperial Entomol ...
in 1940. The name of this genus is a replacement name for ''Cophomantis'' Meyrick.
[Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge (1940)]
"New generic names for microlepidoptera"
''The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation''. 52 (2): 17-1.
Species
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Cophomantella alphanozoma''
(Meyrick, 1926) (Sierra Leone and Uganda)
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Cophomantella artonoma''
(Meyrick, 1936) (from Congo)
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Cophomantella bifrenata''
(Meyrick, 1921) (South Africa and Tanzania)
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Cophomantella bythota''
(Meyrick, 1916) (Ghana)
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Cophomantella crypsizyga''
(Meyrick, 1914) (from Malawi)
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Cophomantella cubiculata''
(Meyrick, 1911) (Seychelles)
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Cophomantella cyclopodes''
(Meyrick, 1922) (from Tanzania)
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Cophomantella elaphopis''
(Meyrick, 1910) (India)
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Cophomantella eremota''
(Meyrick, 1911) (Sri Lanka)
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Cophomantella furnaria''
(Meyrick, 1913) (from South Africa)
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Cophomantella homogramma''
(Meyrick, 1918) (from South Africa)
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Cophomantella lychnocentra''
(Meyrick, 1904) (Tasmania)
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Cophomantella myadelpha''
(Meyrick, 1910) (India)
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Cophomantella osphrantica''
(Meyrick, 1929) (India)
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Cophomantella pumicata''
(Meyrick, 1929) (India)
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Cophomantella syngonarcha''
(Meyrick, 1926) (from Uganda)
References
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Lecithoceridae
{{Lecithoceridae-stub