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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Autostichidae » Autostichinae » Autosticha

Genus Autosticha

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Moth with row of spots, plus four fainter ones - Autosticha kyotensis Kyoto Moth - Autosticha kyotensis Unknown Micromoth - Autosticha kyotensis Unknown Micromoth - Autosticha kyotensis Unknown moth - Autosticha kyotensis Austicha keyotensis? - Autosticha kyotensis Kyoto Moth - Hodges#1010.1 - Dorsal - Autosticha kyotensis Kyoto Moth - Autosticha kyotensis
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Gelechioidea (Twirler Moths and kin)
Family Autostichidae
Subfamily Autostichinae
Genus Autosticha
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Autosticha Meyrick, 1886 (repl. name) (281)
Automola Meyrick, 1883 (preoc.)
Epicharma Walsingham, 1897 (38)
Prosomura Turner, 1919 (147)
Identification
Typically, these moths have the second and third forewing vein emerging from a common stalk. The labial palps are characteristically tapering from the second segment onwards and end in a pointed tip. 1
Print References
Meyrick, P.C. 1883. Notes on Hawaiian micro-Lepidoptera. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 20: 34
Internet References
The Japanese fauna was revised by Ueda 1997(1), relevant here because one Japanese species, A. kyotensis, has been introduced into North America.
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Autosticha Meyrick from Japan (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae).
Ueda, T. 1997. Japanese Journal of Entomology 65(1): 108-126.
Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 2 September, 2012 - 7:04pm
Additional contributions by Terry Harrison, Randy Hardy
Last updated 25 June, 2014 - 2:08pm

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