''Haplochrois'' 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
Elachistidae
The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the Taxonomic rank, superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lumpers and splitters, lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly result ...
, though some classifications place it in the
Agonoxenidae
The Agonoxeninae are a subfamily of moths.
History of classification
Formerly, the subfamily only contained four named species – all in the type genus '' Agonoxena'' – if (e.g. following Nielsen ''et al.'', 1996). Such a monotypic ar ...
,
Coleophoridae
The Coleophoridae are a family of small moths, belonging to the huge superfamily Gelechioidea. Collectively known as case-bearers, casebearing moths or case moths, this family is represented on all continents, but the majority are found in temp ...
or
Cosmopterigidae
The Cosmopterigidae are a family of insects (cosmet moths) in the order Lepidoptera. These are small moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previ ...
.
Selected species
* ''
Haplochrois albanica''
(Rebel & Zerny, 1932)
* ''
Haplochrois bipunctella''
(Chambers, 1880)
* ''
Haplochrois buvati''
Baldizzone, 1985
* ''
Haplochrois chlorometalla''
Meyrick, 1897
* ''
Haplochrois coleophorella''
(Sinev, 1993)
* ''
Haplochrois galapagosalis''
Landry, 2001
* ''
Haplochrois ganota''
(Meyrick, 1911)
* ''
Haplochrois gelechiella''
Rebel, 1902
* ''
Haplochrois guttata''
Busck, 1914
* ''
Haplochrois halans''
(Meyrick, 1924)
* ''
Haplochrois hysterota''
(Meyrick, 1918)
* ''
Haplochrois ochraceella''
Rebel, 1903
* ''
Haplochrois otiosa''
Walsingham, 1909
* ''
Haplochrois picropa''
(Meyrick, 1921)
* ''
Haplochrois tanyptera''
Turner, 1923
* ''
Haplochrois thalycra''
Meyrick, 1897
* ''
Haplochrois theae''
(Kusnezov, 1916)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Elachistidae
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