The Siloscinae are a
subfamily
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of
moth
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of the
family
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Tineidae
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. The subfamily was described by Hungarian entomologist László Anthony Gozmány in 1968.
Most species of this subfamily are found in the
Afrotropical
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region, but one species was described from
China
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.
Genera
* ''
Autochthonus''
Walsingham, 1891
* ''
Organodesma''
Gozmány, 1965
* ''
Silosca''
Gozmány, 1965
References
*Gozmány L. A., 1965. Some collections of Tineid moths from Africa (Microlepidoptera). — ''Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae'' 11(): 253–294.
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