Exelastis

Exelastis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pterophoroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Superfamilia: Pterophoroidea

Familia: Pterophoridae
Subfamilia: Pterophorinae
Tribus: Exelastini
Genus: Exelastis
Species: (20):
E. atomosa – E. bergeri – E. boireaui – E. caroli – E. crepuscularis – E. crudipennis – E. dowi – E. ebalensis – E. hulstaerti – E. luqueti – E. montichristi – E. pavidus – E. phlyctaenias – E. pilum – E. pumilio – E. rhynchosiae – E. robinsoni – E. sarcochroa – E. tenax – E. viettei – E. vuattouxi

Name

Exelastis Meyrick, 1908

Type species: Aciptilia atomosa Walsingham, 1885, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Marasmarcha auct., not Meyrick, 1886
• Hepalastis Gibeaux, 1994. TS: Mimeseoptilus pumilio Zeller, 1873, by original designation and monotypy.
• Cordivalva Gibeaux, 1994. TS: Cordivalva luqueti Gibeaux, 1994, by original designation.

References

• Gibeaux, C., 1994: Fauna de Madagascar 81 Insectes Lépidoptères Pterophoridae
• Gielis, C., 2003: World Catalogue of Insects Volume 4, Pterophoroidea & Alucitoidea (Lepidoptera).
• Gielis, Cees, 2003: Review of the Pterophoridae from New Guinea, with descriptions of eight new species (Lepidoptera). Zoologische Mededelingen 77 (21): 349–391. [1]]
• Gielis, C., 2006: Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I: Ochyroticinae, Deutero- copinae, Pterophorinae (Platyptiliini, Exelastini, Oxyptilini) (Lepidoptera).. Zoologische Mededelingen 80-2 (1): 1–290. Full article: [2]
• Gielis, C., 2008: Ten new species of Afrotropical Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera). Zoologische Mededelingen 82 (1) (2008) [3]
• Gielis, C., 2009: On a collection of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) from Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 116 (2): 223–256. Abstract [4]
• Gielis, C., 2011: Notes on some African Pterophoridae, with description of new species (Lepidoptera). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 49: 33–63.
• Matthews, Deborah L. & Bernard Landry, 2009, Description of a new species of Exelastis (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from the neotropics, with keys to adults of the four species occurring in Florida, Tropical Lepidoptera 18 (2): 62–69. Full article: [5].