Heloscopa
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| Genus: | Heloscopa Diakonoff, 1955
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| Species: | H. petricola
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| Heloscopa petricola Diakonoff, 1955
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Heloscopa is a moth genus. It was placed initially in the family Tineidae of superfamily Tineoidea, but it appears to belong to the related , and therein to subfamily Oecophorinae of the family Oecophoridae.[1]
The genus is treated as monotypic, with the single species Heloscopa petricola placed here. The species is found in New Guinea.
Footnotes[]
- ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)
References[]
Data related to Heloscopa at Wikispecies
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Heloscopa. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-APR-24.
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