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

Genus Taygete

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