Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914

Yin, Aihui & Wang, Shuxia, 2016, Taxonomic study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from Thailand (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea), ZooKeys 571, pp. 133-141 : 134

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.571.6897

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:95D9546B-4715-4617-AC75-FDB8EE524C3C

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BEA24FF9-E419-326D-8867-A3D7D5FE1A99

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scientific name

Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Cosmopterigidae

Genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 View in CoL

Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914: 255.

Type species.

Cryptolechia stomota Meyrick, 1910, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

The genus Meleonoma is characterized by the narrow lanceolate forewing with ground color pale yellow, yellow or pale ochreous yellow; by the male genitalia with spear-shaped or slender sticklike uncus, the absent, or membranous or weakly sclerotized circular gnathos, the varied shape of the sacculus, and the elongate or triangular saccus; by the female genitalia with entirely or partly sclerotized ductus bursae, and the signum often with spines, if present.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Gelechioidea

Family

Cosmopterigidae