''Crassuncus'' is an

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...

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 ...

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Pterophoridae The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings, giving them the shape of a narrow winged airplane. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are ...

Taxonomy

The genus was erected by C. Gibeaux in 1994 and is currently assigned to tribe Oidaematophorini. Several of its species were originally described in genus '' Pterophorus''.

Distribution

The genus has an Afrotropical distribution, with species recorded from

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Malawi Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...

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Species

, the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following species for genus ''Crassuncus'': *'' Crassuncus colubratus'' (Meyrick, 1909) *'' Crassuncus defectus'' (Bigot & Luquet, 1991) *'' Crassuncus ecstaticus'' (Meyrick, 1932) *'' Crassuncus ermakovae'' Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2017 *'' Crassuncus hawkingi'' Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2016 *'' Crassuncus kenzo'' Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2017 *'' Crassuncus koperbergi'' Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2016 *'' Crassuncus livingstoni'' Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2014 *'' Crassuncus orophilus'' Gibeaux, 1994 *'' Crassuncus pacifica'' (Meyrick, 1911) *'' Crassuncus pseudolaudatus'' (Gibeaux, 1992) *'' Crassuncus timidus'' (Meyrick, 1908) *'' Crassuncus tripunctatus'' (Walsingham, 1881)

References

Kovtunovich, Ustejuzhanin & Murphy, 2014.Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Zootaxa 3847 (4): 451–494 (11 Aug. 2014)
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