Dactylethrella
| Dactylethrella | |
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| Dactylethrella bryophilella | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Family: | Gelechiidae | 
| Subfamily: | Anacampsinae | 
| Genus: | T. B. Fletcher, 1940  | 
| Synonyms | |
| 
 Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906 nec. Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829  | |
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:[1][2]
- 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
 
Thes 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)).
References
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Dactylethrella Fletcher T. B., 1940". Afromoths. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
 - ^ Savela, Markku. "Dactylethrella Fletcher, 1940". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
 
External links
 Media related to Dactylethrella at Wikimedia Commons- https://europepmc.org/article/cba/312668
 
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