Lecithocera

Lecithocera tenella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Subfamily:	Lecithocerinae
Genus:	Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
Synonyms
Andusia Walker, 1866 Brachyerga Meyrick, 1925 Celetodes Meyrick, 1921 Leviptera Janse, 1954 Macrotona Meyrick, 1904 Nyctocyrma Gozmány, 1978 Parrhasastris Gozmány, 1972 Patouissa Walker, 1864 Periphorectis Meyrick, 1925 Psammoris Meyrick, 1906 Quassitagma Gozmány, 1978 Recontracta Gozmány, 1978 Sarisophora Meyrick, 1904 disputed Siovata Walker, 1866 Syntetarca Gozmány, 1978 Tirasia Walker, 1864 Tiriza Walker, 1864 Titana Walker, 1864 Xanthocera Amsel, 1953 Xanthocerodes Amsel, 1955

Lecithocera is a genus of moths in the lecithocerid subfamily Lecithocerinae. The genus was erected by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1853.^[1]^[2]

Species

Lecithocera absumptella (Walker, 1864)
Lecithocera acolasta Meyrick, 1919
Lecithocera acribostola Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera acrosphales Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera acuta Wadhawan & Walia, 2007
Lecithocera adelella (Walker, 1864)
Lecithocera adelella Viette, 1955
Lecithocera aenicta Janse, 1954
Lecithocera affusa Meyrick, 1923
Lecithocera alampes Turner, 1919
Lecithocera alcestis Meyrick, 1923
Lecithocera alpestra Park, 2005
Lecithocera alternella (Walker, 1866)
Lecithocera altusana Park, 1999
Lecithocera ambona C. S. Wu & Y. Q. Liu, 1993
Lecithocera amphigrapta Meyrick, 1926
Lecithocera amseli Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera anatolica Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera ancylota (Meyrick, 1894)
Lecithocera andrianella Viette, 1968
Lecithocera anglijuxta C. Wu, 1997
Lecithocera angustiella Park, 1999
Lecithocera ankasokella Viette, 1968
Lecithocera anthologella Wallengren, 1875
Lecithocera antiphractis Meyrick, 1921
Lecithocera anympha Meyrick, 1916
Lecithocera asarota Meyrick, 1925
Lecithocera aspergata Gozmány, 1973
Lecithocera atricastana Park, 1999
Lecithocera aulias Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera autodyas Meyrick, 1925
Lecithocera autologa Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera baeopis Meyrick, 1929
Lecithocera barbata Meyrick, 1933
Lecithocera barbifera Meyrick, 1922
Lecithocera bariella Viette, 1958
Lecithocera beijingensis Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera biaroensis Park, 2012
Lecithocera bimaculata Park, 1999
Lecithocera binotata Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera bipunctella (Snellen, 1903)
Lecithocera brachyptila Diakonoff, 1954
Lecithocera brunneibella Park, 2012
Lecithocera caecilia Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera calochalca Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera calomerida Park & Wu, 2010
Lecithocera cameronella Viette, 1956
Lecithocera capnaula (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera carcinopsis Meyrick, 1929
Lecithocera carpaea (Meyrick, 1906)
Lecithocera castanoma Wu, 1997
Lecithocera cataenepha Gozmány, 1973
Lecithocera caustospila Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera caveiformis Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera caviella Park, 2005
Lecithocera ceratoides Park, 2012
Lecithocera cerussata (Wu, 1994)
Lecithocera chamela Turner, 1919
Lecithocera chartaca Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera chersitis Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera chlorogastra Meyrick, 1922
Lecithocera chloroscia Meyrick, 1938
Lecithocera choleroleuca Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera choritis Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera cinnamomea Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera coleasta Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera combusta Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera comparata (Gozmány, 1978)
Lecithocera compsophila (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera concinna (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera contorta Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera contracta Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera cordata (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera cornutella (Walker, 1864)
Lecithocera cornutima Park, 2009
Lecithocera corythaeola Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera cratophanes Meyrick, 1929
Lecithocera crebrata Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera crypsigenes Meyrick, 1929
Lecithocera cucullata Meyrick, 1914
Lecithocera cuspidata Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera cyamitis (Meyrick, 1904)
Lecithocera daebuensis Park, 1999
Lecithocera decaryella Viette, 1955
Lecithocera decorosa Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera deleastra (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera deloma Durrant, 1915
Lecithocera desolata Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera dicentropa Meyrick, 1938
Lecithocera didentata Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera dierli Gozmány, 1973
Lecithocera diligens Meyrick, 1922
Lecithocera diplosticta Meyrick, 1922
Lecithocera dirupta Meyrick, 1923
Lecithocera disperma (Diakonoff, 1954)
Lecithocera dissonella (Walker, 1864)
Lecithocera distigmatella (Zeller, 1877)
Lecithocera docilis Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera dondavisi Park, 2013
Lecithocera dracopis (Meyrick, 1921)
Lecithocera dubitans Meyrick, 1926
Lecithocera duplicata (Gozmány, 1978)
Lecithocera echinata Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera elephantopa (Meyrick, 1910)
Lecithocera eligmosa C. S. Wu & Y. Q. Liu, 1993
Lecithocera eludens Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera epomia (Meyrick, 1905)
Lecithocera erebosa Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera erecta Meyrick, 1935
Lecithocera eremiodes Park & Wu, 2010
Lecithocera eretma Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera eucharis Meyrick, 1933
Lecithocera eumenopis Meyrick, 1914
Lecithocera excaecata Meyrick, 1922
Lecithocera exophthalma (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera fascicula Park, 1999
Lecithocera fascinatrix Meyrick, 1935
Lecithocera fascitiala Park, 2012
Lecithocera fausta Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera flavicosta Gozmány, 1973
Lecithocera flavifusa Meyrick, 1926
Lecithocera flavipalpis Walsingham, 1891
Lecithocera flavofusa Gozmány, 1973
Lecithocera formosana (Shiraki)
Lecithocera fornacalis (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera fraudatrix (Gozmány, 1978)
Lecithocera frisilina (Gozmány, 1978)
Lecithocera frustrata Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera fuscedinella (Snellen, 1901)
Lecithocera fuscosa Park, 1999
Lecithocera gemma Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera gilviana Park & Wu, 2010
Lecithocera glabrata (C. S. Wu & Liu, 1992)
Lecithocera glaphyritis Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera goniometra Meyrick, 1929
Lecithocera gozmanyi Pathania & Rose, 2004
Lecithocera grammophanes Meyrick, 1926
Lecithocera graphata Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera gyrosiella Park, 2012
Lecithocera haemylopis (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera hemiacma Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera hiarakella Viette, 1988
Lecithocera hiata Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera hildebrandtella Viette, 1956
Lecithocera hispidiella Park, 2012
Lecithocera homocentra Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera hypsipola Meyrick, 1926
Lecithocera ianthodes Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera ichorodes Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera ideologa Meyrick, 1937
Lecithocera immobilis Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera improvisa Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera imprudens (Meyrick, 1914)
Lecithocera indigens (Meyrick, 1914)
Lecithocera inepta Meyrick, 1926
Lecithocera inkyuleei Park, 2012
Lecithocera innotatella (Walker, 1864)
Lecithocera insidians Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera integrata Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera iodocarpha Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera iresia (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera isomitra Meyrick, 1914
Lecithocera isophanes (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera itrinea Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera jugalis Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera kambanella Viette, 1986
Lecithocera lacunara Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera ladrone Gozmány, 2002
Lecithocera laminospina (Wu & Park, 1999)
Lecithocera lamprodesma Meyrick, 1922
Lecithocera lasioides Park, 2012
Lecithocera latiola Park, 1999
Lecithocera lecithocerella Viette, 1956
Lecithocera leucoceros Meyrick, 1932
Lecithocera leucomastis Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera leucotella (Walker, 1864)
Lecithocera levirota Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera licnitha Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera linocoma Meyrick, 1916
Lecithocera longivalva Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera loxophthalma Meyrick, 1934
Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick, 1913
Lecithocera luteola Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera luticostella Turati, 1926
Lecithocera macella Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera macrotoma Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera magna Park, 2005
Lecithocera malacta Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera masoalella Viette, 1955
Lecithocera mazina Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera megalopis Meyrick, 1916
Lecithocera megalosperma Diakonoff, 1954
Lecithocera melliflua Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera meloda Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera mepsina Park, 2006
Lecithocera mesosura C. S. Wu & Park, 1999
Lecithocera metacausta Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera metopaena C. S. Wu & Park, 1999
Lecithocera micromela (Lower, 1897)
Lecithocera mocquerysella Viette, 1955
Lecithocera monobyrsa Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera montana Park, 2005
Lecithocera montiatilis Park, 2009
Lecithocera mylitacha Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera myopa Meyrick, 1913
Lecithocera nefasta Meyrick, 1916
Lecithocera neosticta Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera nepalica Gozmány, 1973
Lecithocera nepheloschema Gozmány, 1973
Lecithocera nigrana (Duponchel, 1835)
Lecithocera niptanensis Park, 2012
Lecithocera nitikoba Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera nomaditis Meyrick, 1916
Lecithocera noseropa (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera obsignata Meyrick, 1914
Lecithocera ochrometra Meyrick, 1933
Lecithocera octonias Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera officialis Meyrick, 1911
Lecithocera ojejyella Viette, 1986
Lecithocera olinxana Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera omphacias Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera orbiculata Park & Wu, 2010
Lecithocera oxycona Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera pachyntis Meyrick, 1894
Lecithocera pakiaensis Park, 2009
Lecithocera palingensis Park, 1999
Lecithocera palmata Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera palpella Bradley, 1961
Lecithocera paralevirota Park, 1999
Lecithocera parenthesis Gozmány, 1973
Lecithocera paroena (Meyrick, 1906)
Lecithocera paulianella Viette, 1955
Lecithocera pauperella Rebel, 1917
Lecithocera peloceros Meyrick, 1938
Lecithocera pelomorpha Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera pepantica Meyrick, 1934
Lecithocera peracantha Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera percnobela (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera perfida Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera perigypsa Meyrick, 1922
Lecithocera perpensa Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera perrierella Viette, 1985
Lecithocera persica Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera petalana C. S. Wu & Y. Q. Liu, 1993
Lecithocera phaeodryas Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera phaeoperla Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera phratriastis Meyrick, 1929
Lecithocera plicata C. S. Wu & Park, 1999
Lecithocera poculata Park & Wu, 2010
Lecithocera pogonikuma C. S. Wu & Park, 1999
Lecithocera poliocoma Meyrick, 1916
Lecithocera polioflava Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera porrectiella Park, 2012
Lecithocera praeses Meyrick, 1919
Lecithocera proclivis Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera protolyca Meyrick, 1938
Lecithocera protoma Meyrick, 1914
Lecithocera prudens Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera pseudolunata Park, 2012
Lecithocera ptochas Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera pulchella Park, 1999
Lecithocera pulcherrimella (Walker, 1866)
Lecithocera punctigeneralis (Walker, 1864)
Lecithocera purpurea Diakonoff, 1954
Lecithocera puteolata (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera pyxinodes Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera querula Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera rabenoroi Viette, 1988
Lecithocera radamella Viette, 1968
Lecithocera ranavaloella Viette, 1967
Lecithocera randimella Viette, 1956
Lecithocera raphidica Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera responsa Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera rotundata Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera rubigona Park, 2006
Lecithocera sabrata Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera sceptrarcha Meyrick, 1920
Lecithocera schoutedeniella Ghesquière, 1940
Lecithocera semirupta Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera semnodora Meyrick, 1933
Lecithocera serena Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera sextacta Diakonoff, 1954
Lecithocera shanpinensis Park, 1999
Lecithocera sigillata (Gozmány, 1978)
Lecithocera signifera (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Lecithocera sikkimella (Caradja, 1920)
Lecithocera similis Park, 2006
Lecithocera simulatrix (Gozmány, 1978)
Lecithocera sinuosa Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera sobria (Meyrick, 1904)
Lecithocera sophronopa Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera spinulata Park, 2012
Lecithocera squalida Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera squamifera Meyrick, 1929
Lecithocera staurophora Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera stelophanes Meyrick, 1938
Lecithocera stichoides Park, 2012
Lecithocera stomobapta Meyrick, 1929
Lecithocera storestis (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera strangalistis (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera strenua Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera strigosa Durrant, 1915
Lecithocera structurata Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera sublunata Diakonoff, 1954
Lecithocera submersa Diakonoff, 1954
Lecithocera subservitella (Walker, 1864)
Lecithocera symptomatica Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera syntropha Meyrick, 1918
Lecithocera syriella Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera telosperma Diakonoff, [1968]
Lecithocera tenella (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera terrena (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera terrigena (Meyrick, 1904)
Lecithocera thaiheisana Park, 1999
Lecithocera theconoma Meyrick, 1926
Lecithocera thioclora Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera tienchiensis Park, 1999
Lecithocera timioceros Meyrick, 1938
Lecithocera tricholoba Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera tridentata Wu & Liu, 1993
Lecithocera trifera Meyrick, 1938
Lecithocera trigonopsis (Meyrick, 1907)
Lecithocera tumidosa Park & Wu, 2010
Lecithocera turcica Gozmány & Mey, 2005
Lecithocera tylobathra Meyrick, 1931
Lecithocera umbripennis (Swinhoe, 1885)
Lecithocera vartiani Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera xanthoantennalis Wadhawan & Walia, 2007
Lecithocera xanthochalca Meyrick, 1914
Lecithocera xanthocosma (Meyrick, 1923)
Lecithocera xanthocostalis Wadhawan & Walia, 2007
Lecithocera xanthophaea Meyrick, 1926
Lecithocera yoshiyasui Park, 2006

Former species

Lecithocera brachymita (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera chlaenota (Meyrick, 1904)
Lecithocera cyclonitis (Meyrick, 1904)
Lecithocera dispila (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera epigompha Meyrick, 1910
Lecithocera geraea (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera leptoglypta (Meyrick, 1904)
Lecithocera leucoscia (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera lycopis (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera marginata Walsingham, 1891
Lecithocera meyricki (Ghesquière, 1940)
Lecithocera nubigena (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera nyctiphylax (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera paraulias Gozmány, 1978
Lecithocera paroristis (Meyrick, 1911)
Lecithocera pycnospila (Turner, 1919)
Lecithocera xylogramma Meyrick, 1922

References

Further reading

Brown, J.W.; D. Adamski; R.W. Hodges & S.M. Bahr, 2004: Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Zootaxa 510: 1–160. [1]
Gozmány, L. & W. Mey, 2005: Eine neue Art der Familie Lecithoceridae aus der Türkei (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 49: 127–128.
Park, K.-t. 1999: Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) of Taiwan (I): Subfamily Lecithocerinae: Genera Homaloxestis Meyrick and Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer. Zoological studies, 38 (2): 238–256. PDF.
Park, K. T. 2005: Genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer of Thailand (I): Descriptions of Three New Species (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 8 (3): 233–237.
Park, K.-t. 2006: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand (II) Descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Tinea, 19 (2): 98-103.
Park, K.-t. 2006: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand (III): New records of five species of the genus (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Journal of Asia-Pacific entomology, 9 (4): 313–316.
Park, K.-t. 2009: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand. Part IV. Descriptions of three new species and notes on a little known species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). Zootaxa, 2208: 58–64. Abstract & excerpt.
Park, K. T., 2012: Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of New Guinea, Part VI: Lecithocera sublunata species complex. Entomological Science 15 (1): 68–73. doi:10.1111/j.1479-8298.2011.00462.x.
Park, K. T., 2012: Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea, Lepidoptera) of New Guinea, Part X: Review of the genus Lecithocera with descriptions of ten new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 15 (2): 313–327.
Park, K. T., 2012: Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea, Lepidoptera) of New Guinea Part X: Review of the genus Sarisophora, with descriptions of seven new species. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 22 (1): 8-15.
Park, K.-T.; J.B. Heppner & Y.-S. Bae, 2013: Two new species of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea), with a revised check list of the family in Taiwan. ZooKeys 263: 47–57. Abstract and full article: doi:10.3897/zookeys.263.3781.
Park, K. T. & S.M. Lee, 1999: A review of the Lecithocerinae and Torodorinae (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) in Korea. Insecta Koreana 16 (2): 119–129.
Park, K. T. & C.-S. Wu, 2010: Genus Lecithocera of Thailand Part V, with reports of nine species including six new species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 20 (2): 62–70.
Wu, C.-s. & Y.-q. Liu, 1993: A study of the Chinese Lecithocera Herrich-Schaffer, 1853 and descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera:Lecithoceridae). Sinozoologia 10: 319–345. Full article: [2].
Wu, C.-S. & K.-T. Park, 1999: Taxonomic review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) in Sri Lanka IV.The subfamily Lecithocerinae: genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer and its allies. Insecta Koreana 16 (1): 1-14.

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Taxon identifiers

Taxon identifiers

Lecithocera

Wikidata: Q5224780
Wikispecies: Lecithocera
AFD: Lecithocera
BOLD: 4498
ButMoth: 15629.0
CoL: 92CZT
EoL: 93630
Fauna Europaea: 434511
Fauna Europaea (new): 65758e54-64a4-4823-8f26-6e777bc2434f
GBIF: 1831868
iNaturalist: 124068
IRMNG: 1061327
LepIndex: 102479
NCBI: 1073645
NZOR: 7b5558e0-ecbd-46e0-bc92-6adac32ce979
Open Tree of Life: 1085129
Plazi: F462905F-FFBD-D12E-FF39-5B04BF4C3B40

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