Published December 31, 2021 | Version v1
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Epicephala Meyrick 1880

  • 1. College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • 2. Forestry Resources and Wildlife Protection Center of Zibo, Zibo 255022, Shandong, China
  • 3. Agricultural Service Center of Wangfu, Qingzhou 262521, Shandong, China Corresponding author, E-mail: liutt @ sdnu. edu. cn

Description

Epicephala Meyrick, 1880

Epicephala Meyrick, 1880:137 (in key), 168. Type species: Epicephala colymbetella Meyrick, 1880, by monotypy.

Iraina Diakonoff, 1955: 84, 92. Type species: Iraina periplecta Diakonoff, 1955, by original designation, synonymized by Vári (1961).

Leiocephala Kuznetzov & Baryshnikova, 2001: 32. Type species: Epicephala colymbetella Meyrick, 1880, by original designation, synonymized by de Prins & de Prins (2005: 177).

Notes

Published as part of Jiang, Yurong, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Encui, Zhang, Tongyou & Liu, Tengteng, 2021, Taxonomic review on Acrocercopinae, Gracillariinae and Ornixolinae from Shandong, China, with new data on distribution and host associations (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), pp. 240-257 in Zoological Systematics 46 (3) on page 253, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021306, http://zenodo.org/record/7176092

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Meyrick
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Gracillariidae
Genus
Epicephala
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Epicephala Meyrick, 1880 sec. Jiang, Zhao, Wang, Zhang & Liu, 2021

References

  • Meyrick, E. 1880. Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. III Tineina. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 5 (1): 132 - 182, 204 - 271.
  • Diakonoff, A. 1955. Microlepidoptera of New Guinea. Results of the third Archbold expedition (American-Netherlands Indian expedition 1938 - 1939). North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam. 210 pp.
  • Vari, L. 1961. South African Lepidoptera. Vol. I. Lithocolletidae. Transvaal Museum Memoir, 12: 1 - 238.
  • de Prins, W., de Prins, J. 2005. Gracillariidae. In: Landry, B. (ed.), World Catalogue of Insects. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. pp. 1 - 502.