Genus Taygete

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Print References · Works Cited

Taygete Moth - Hodges #1845 - Taygete gallaegenitella

Autosticidae - something near Taygete gallaegenitella? - Taygete attributella

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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 Symmocinae

Genus Taygete

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Taygete Chambers 1873

* formerly in Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae, Gelechiini (1)

Print References

Chambers, V.T. 1873. Micro-Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologists 5(12): 231-232

Landry, B. 2002. Galagete, a new genus of Autostichidae representing the first case of an extensive radiation of endemic Lepidoptera in the Galapagos Islands. Revue suisse de Zoologie 109: 819. (Taygete transferred to Symmocinae sensu Hodges (1998))

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico Lee S., Hodges R.W., Brown R.L. 2009. Zootaxa 2231: 1–39.

Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 3 July, 2009 - 9:52am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 7 January, 2017 - 5:03pm

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