''Epichoristodes'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
s in the family
Tortricidae
The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, in the order Lepidoptera. This large family has over 11,000 species described, and is the sole member of the superfamily Tortricoidea, although the gen ...
and the
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
Archipini
The Archipini are a tribe of tortrix moths. Since many genera of these are not yet assigned to tribes, the genus list presented here is provisional.
Diversity
Archipini is the largest tribe in the Tortricinae subfamily, containing over 1,600 ...
. The genus was erected by
Alexey Diakonoff
Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera.
His parents immigrated to the Netherlands East I ...
in 1960.
Species
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Epichoristodes acerbella''
(Walker, 1864)
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Epichoristodes adustana''
(Walsingham, 1881)
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Epichoristodes apilectica
''Epichoristodes apilectica'' is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It was first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1960 and is found on Madagascar.
Afromoths uses the name ''Epichoristodes apiletica'' on its website. That website refere ...
''
Diakonoff, 1960
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Epichoristodes atricaput''
Diakonoff, 1973
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Epichoristodes atycta''
Bradley, 1965
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Epichoristodes canonicum''
Diakonoff, 1973
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Epichoristodes cinerata''
(Meyrick, 1920)
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Epichoristodes dorsiplagana''
(Walsingham, 1881)
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Epichoristodes exanimata''
(Meyrick, 1920)
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Epichoristodes goniopa''
Diakonoff, 1960
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Epichoristodes heterotropha''
Bradley, 1965
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Epichoristodes imbriculata''
(Meyrick, 1938)
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Epichoristodes incerta''
Diakonoff, 1960
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Epichoristodes leucocymba''
(Meyrick, 1912)
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Epichoristodes licmaea''
Meyrick, 1920
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Epichoristodes macrosema''
Diakonoff, 1970
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Epichoristodes niphosema''
(Meyrick, 1917)
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Epichoristodes panochra''
Bradley, 1965
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Epichoristodes phalaraea''
(Meyrick, 1920)
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Epichoristodes pylora''
(Meyrick, 1938)
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Epichoristodes spinulosa''
Meyrick, 1924
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Epichoristodes ypsilon''
Diakonoff, 1960
Former species
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Epichoristodes psoricodes''
(Meyrick, 1911)
See also
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List of Tortricidae genera
This is a taxonomy of the moth family Tortricidae down to genus level. This classification is up-to-date to 2008, taking information from the Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae and taxonomic changes made in 2007.
Subfamily Tortricinae Tri ...
References
* Brown, J. W. (2005). ''World Catalogue of Insects''. 5 ''Tortricidae''.
* Diakonoff, A. (1960). ''Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen''. (2) 53 (2): 166.
* Razowski, J.; Aarvik, L. & de Prins, J. (2010)
"An annotated catalogue of the types of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) with descriptions of new genera and new species" ''Zootaxa''. 2469: 1-77.
* Razowski, J. & Krüger, M. (2013). "An illustrated catalogue of the specimens of Tortricidae in the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)". ''SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología''. 41 (162): 213–240.
External links
''Tortricid.net''
Archipini
Tortricidae genera
Taxa named by Alexey Diakonoff
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