Dactylethrella is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940 and is a replacement name for Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906 (preoccupied by Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829).
Taxonomy The type species of both aforementioned genera is Dactylethra tetroctas Meyrick, 1906 from Sri Lanka, later a junior subjective synonym of Dactylethrella candida (Stainton, 1859).
Species The species of this genus are:
Dactylethrella bryophilella (Walsingham, 1891) – Gambia Dactylethrella candida (Stainton, 1859) – Sri Lanka Dactylethrella chionitis (Meyrick, 1910) – South Africa Dactylethrella globulata (Meyrick, 1910) – Sri Lanka Dactylethrella incondita (Meyrick, 1913) – Sri Lanka Dactylethrella leuconota Bidzilya & Mey, 2011 – Namibia Dactylethrella siccifolii (Walsingham, 1881) – South Africa Dactylethrella tetrametra (Meyrick, 1913) – South Africa
The Asian species (amongst others) are subsequently placed in other genera: Dactylethrella catarina Pnomarenko – China Dactylethrella shenae Li & Zheng, 1998 – China Dactylethrella tegulifera (Meyrick) – China (See also "Dactylethrella albidella" of some listings, may be from protonym Nothris albidella Snellen, 1884, later Empalactis albidella (Snellen, 1884).)
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External links
https://europepmc.org/article/cba/312668