Homaloxestis Meyrick, 1910

Park, Kyu-Tek & Prins, Willy De, 2019, A review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of southern Africa, based on type specimens deposited in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (TMSA), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4623 (1), pp. 61-89 : 68

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Genus Homaloxestis Meyrick, 1910 View in CoL

Type species: Homaloxestis endocma Meyrick, 1910 .

The genus Homaloxestis comprises about 50 described species. Of these, four species, Homaloxestis cholopis (Meyrick, 1906) , H. lophophora Janse, 1954, H. subpallida Meyrick, 1931 and H. rawlinsi Park, 2018 are known from the Afrotropical Region.

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
SuperFamily	Gelechioidea
Family	Lecithoceridae
SubFamily	Lecithocerinae

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