''Stathmopoda'' is a genus of moths. It has variously been placed in its own family, Stathmopodidae, or in subfamily Stathmopodinae in the family Oecophoridae. Note that the phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved.

Description

''Stathmopoda'' have smooth heads with a metallic luster, and the occiput may be smooth or slightly coarse. The labial palps (part of the mouthparts) are curved, sharp-tipped and the second and third segments are similar in length. There is a pair of Antenna (biology), antennae which are shorter than the forewing, have elongate and clubbed scapes, and (in males) the flagella have long ciliae on the anterior margins. Both forewings and hindwings are lanceolate, meaning they are widest near the base and taper to points at the end. The forewings are usually yellowish with dark brown markings. The tibiae of the hind legs have dense tufts. Most of the abdominal Tergum, tergites (2nd-7th of males, 2nd-6th of females) have spiniform (spine-like) Seta, setae along their posterior margins. The male genitalia have a bell-shaped uncus that is setose laterally and tapering caudally, and is as long as the gnathos. The cucullus is densely setose on its inner margin. The female genitalia have the corpus bursae bearing a signum or a pair of signa. See Lepidoptera genitalia for definitions of these terms.

Ecology

Larvae of ''Stathmopoda'' bore into seeds, fruits or buds of plants. Some are agricultural pests. For example, ''S. auriferella'' is a pest of fruits and vegetables including Apple, apples, Avocado, avocados, Grape, grapes, Jujube, jujubes, kiwifruit, Peach, peaches and Pomegranate, pomegranates. ''Stathmopoda masinissa'' can cause serious damage to Persimmon, persimmons.

Selected species

*''Stathmopoda aconias'' Meyrick, 1897 (India, Sri Lanka) *''Stathmopoda aegotricha'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda aenea'' (Braun, 1918) *''Stathmopoda albata'' Meyrick, 1913 (Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda albimaculata'' Philpott, 1931 *''Stathmopoda amathodes'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda anconias'' Meyrick, 1910 *''Stathmopoda anticyma'' Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa and Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda antischema'' Meyrick, 1922 *''Stathmopoda aphanosema'' Turner, 1923 *''Stathmopoda aposema'' Meyrick, 1901 *''Stathmopoda arachnitis'' Meyrick, 1907 (Sri Lanka) *''Stathmopoda arachnophthora'' Turner, 1917 *''Stathmopoda arcata'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda aristodoxa'' Meyrick, 1926 *''Stathmopoda astrapeis'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda auriferella'' (Walker, 1864) *''Stathmopoda autoxantha'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda basixantha'' Turner, 1917 *''Stathmopoda bathrodelta'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda biclavis'' Meyrick, 1911 *''Stathmopoda bicolorella'' Koster, 2010 *''Stathmopoda callichrysa'' Lower, 1893 *''Stathmopoda calyptraea'' Meyrick, 1908 (Burma) *''Stathmopoda caminora'' Meyrick, 1890 *''Stathmopoda campylocha'' Meyrick, 1889 *''Stathmopoda canonica'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda castanodes'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda caveata'' Meyrick, 1913 (New Guinea, Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda cephalaea'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda ceramoptila'' Turner, 1923 *''Stathmopoda chalcotypa'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda chalybeis'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda citrinopis'' Meyrick, 1927 *''Stathmopoda citroptila'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda clarkei'' Viette, 1951 *''Stathmopoda clyella'' Busck, 1909 *''Stathmopoda coracodes'' Meyrick, 1923 *''Stathmopoda cornutella'' Bradley, 1961 (Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda crassella'' Walsingham, 1891 *''Stathmopoda crocophanes'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda cyanopla'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda daubanella'' (Legrand, 1958) *''Stathmopoda desmoteles'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda dracaenopa'' Meyrick, 1933 (Fidji, Guam, Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda diclidias'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda dimochla'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda diplaspis'' (Meyrick, 1887) *''Stathmopoda distincta'' Philpott, 1923 *''Stathmopoda doratias'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda effossa'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda elyella'' Busck, 1909 *''Stathmopoda endotherma'' Meyrick, 1931 *''Stathmopoda electrantha'' Meyrick, 1927 (New Hebrides, Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda epilampra'' Meyrick, 1911 *''Stathmopoda eucorystis'' Meyrick, 1936 *''Stathmopoda euzona'' (Turner, 1926) *''Stathmopoda ficivora'' Kasy, 1973 *''Stathmopoda filicula'' Clarke, 1978 *''Stathmopoda glyceropa'' Meyrick, 1915 *''Stathmopoda glyphanobola'' Diakonoff, 1983 *''Stathmopoda grammatopis'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda haplophanes'' Bradley, 1961 (Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda hemiplecta'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda hexatyla'' Meyrick, 1907 (Sri Lanka, Russia) *''Stathmopoda holobapta'' Lower, 1904 *''Stathmopoda holochra'' Meyrick, 1889 *''Stathmopoda holothecta'' Meyrick, 1934 *''Stathmopoda horticola'' Dugdale, 1988 *''Stathmopoda hyposcia'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda imperator'' Bradley, 1957 (Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda iners'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda iodes'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda ischnotis'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda isoclera'' (Meyrick, 1897) *''Stathmopoda lethonoa'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda liporrhoa'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda luminata'' Meyrick, 1911 *''Stathmopoda luxuriosa'' Meyrick, 1911 *''Stathmopoda lychnacma'' (Meyrick, 1927) *''Stathmopoda maculata'' Walsingham, 1891 *''Stathmopoda maisongrossiella'' Viette, 1954 *''Stathmopoda mannophora'' Turner, 1900 *''Stathmopoda margabim'' Viette, 1995 (Reunion) *''Stathmopoda maritimicola'' Terada & Sakamaki, 2011 *''Stathmopoda marmarosticha'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda masinissa'' Meyrick, 1906 (Sri Lanka) *''Stathmopoda megathyma'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda melanochra'' Meyrick, 1897 (Australia) *''Stathmopoda mesombra'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda metopias'' Meyrick, 1920 *''Stathmopoda mimantha'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda monoxesta'' (Meyrick, 1929) *''Stathmopoda morelella'' Legrand, 1966 *''Stathmopoda moschlosema'' Bradley, 1961 (Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda mysteriastis'' Meyrick, 1901 *''Stathmopoda nephocentra'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda nitida'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda notochorda'' Meyrick, 1907 (Sri Lanka) *''Stathmopoda notosticha'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda nucivora'' Meyrick, 1932 (Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda nympheuteria'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda ochrochyta'' (Turner, 1926) *''Stathmopoda osteitis'' Meyrick, 1917 *''Stathmopoda pampolia'' Turner, 1923 *''Stathmopoda pantarches'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda pedella'' (Linnaeus, 1761) *''Stathmopoda pedestrella'' Legrand, 1966 *''Stathmopoda perfuga'' (Meyrick, 1928) *''Stathmopoda periclina'' Meyrick, 1938 (New Guinea, Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda placida'' Meyrick, 1908 (Burma) *''Stathmopoda platynipha'' Turner, 1923 *''Stathmopoda plumbiflua'' Meyrick, 1911 *''Stathmopoda pomifera'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda principalis'' Meyrick, 1913 (Comoros) *''Stathmopoda ptycholampra'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda pyrrhogramma'' Meyrick, 1930 *''Stathmopoda recondita'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda revincta'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda rhodocosma'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda rhythmota'' Meyrick, 1920 *''Stathmopoda rubripicta'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda sentica'' (Lower, 1899) *''Stathmopoda skelloni'' Butler, 1880 *''Stathmopoda sphendonita'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda stimulata'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda superdaubanella'' (Legrand, 1958) *''Stathmopoda teleozona'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda tetrazyga'' Meyrick, 1936 (Solomon Islands) *''Stathmopoda trichodora'' (Meyrick, 1909) *''Stathmopoda trichopeda'' Lower, 1904 *''Stathmopoda trichrysa'' *''Stathmopoda tridryas'' Meyrick, 1934 *''Stathmopoda trifida'' Meyrick, 1921 *''Stathmopoda triloba'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda trimochla'' Turner, 1941 *''Stathmopoda trimolybdias'' Meyrick, 1926 *''Stathmopoda triselena'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda tritophaea'' Turner, 1917 *''Stathmopoda vadoniella'' Viette, 1954 *''Stathmopoda xanthocrana'' Turner, 1933 *''Stathmopoda xanthoma'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Stathmopoda xanthoplitis'' Meyrick, 1908 *''Stathmopoda zalodes'' Meyrick, 1913 *''Stathmopoda zophoptila'' Turner, 1941

Former species

*''Calicotis attiei, Stathmopoda attiei'' Guillermet, 2011 (now in ''Calicotis'' - from China, Japan, Réunion, Taiwan)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q293233 Stathmopodidae Moth genera Taxa named by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer