''Josefrazowskia'' 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 of 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 genu ...

. It contains only one species, ''Josefrazowskia recondita'', which is found in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

Etymology

The genus name refers to Worcester, the type locality of the type-species. The species name refers to the separate systematic position of the species within the

Archipini The Archipini are a tribe (biology), 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, conta ...

tribe and is derived from Latin ''recorndita'' (meaning well distanced)., 2006: Tortricideae (Lepidoptera) from South Africa. 2: Three new genera of Tortricinae. ''Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne'' 75: 417-425

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Moths described in 2006 Archipini {{Archipini-stub

Etymology

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