Alophia (moth) explained

Alophia is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1893. Its single species, Alophia combustella, was described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1852. It is found in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, North Macedonia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and southern Russia.^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus is sometimes listed as a subgenus of Oncocera.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fauna Europaea . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015075809/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=442308 . dead . October 15, 2012 . Faunaeur.org . 2011-10-07.
2. http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/pyralidae/phycitinae/oncocera/ "Oncocera Stephens, 1829"