''Wyoma'' is a small

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of the

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, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the

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. It is probably fairly closely related to the

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of its family and subfamily, ''

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'', and can be most easily separated by the wing venation – in ''Tinea'', two veins in each wing arise from a common stalk, whereas none do in ''Wyoma''.Clarke (1986)

Description

The head is bulging and has a rough, scaly and hairy surface, but the well-developed

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is devoid of scales. The labial

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s droop; their second segment is longer than the third and has a clump of stout bristles at the tip, facing outside. The

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s are long and usually carried tucked in. The antenna are unbranched and about as long as the forewing; the scape bears a flimsy comb. The forewings are narrow and have a rounded tip and 12 separate veins. Of these, vein 1b is simple, 2 starts near the angle of the wing, 7 reaches the leading edge near the tip and 11 starts from the basal fourth of the wing. Vein 4 is closer to 5 than to 3, and vein 10 is well separate from 9 and 11. The hindwings have only 8 veins, with the anal veins vestigial or absent. The hindwing veins are also all separated; vein 2 starts notably before the angle, while the position of vein 7 is equivalent to the forewing; veins 4-6 are evenly spaced, but vein 3 runs closer to vein 2. The male genitals are symmetrical and resemble those of ''

''; they lack a

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, but gnathos and

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are present. Female genitalia are not well described, but as dar as is known they differ markedly from those of ''Tinea''.

Species

Only five

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are contained in ''Wyoma'':Robinson 011/ref> * '' Wyoma dysgnoia'' J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 * '' Wyoma echinastra'' (Meyrick, 1931) * '' Wyoma leucostega'' (Meyrick, 1932) * '' Wyoma schoenoploca'' (Meyrick, 1911) * '' Wyoma striaticostella'' (Petersen, 1959)

Footnotes

References

* (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. ''Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology'' 416: 1-485
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(214 MB!) * 011br>Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera)
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