Calicotis Explained

Calicotis is a genus of moths in the family Stathmopodidae, although it is sometimes included in the family Oecophoridae. In 2024, the genus Pachyrhabda was synonymised with Calicotis.^[1]

Species

• Calicotis acroscia Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
• Calicotis adela Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
• Calicotis amianta Meyrick, 1927 (from Samoa)
• Calicotis animula Meyrick, 1911 (from the Seychelles)
• Calicotis antinoma Meyrick, 1910 (from Australia & New Zealand)
• Calicotis argyritis Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
• Calicotis attiei (Guillermet, 2011) (from China, Japan, Réunion, Taiwan)
• Calicotis bacterias Meyrick, 1913 (from Australia & Sri Lanka)
• Calicotis campylosticha Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
• Calicotis capnoscia Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
• Calicotis citrinacma Meyrick, 1936 (from Taiwan)
• Calicotis crucifera Meyrick, 1889 (from New Zealand/Australia)
• Calicotis dicastis (Meyrick, 1905) (from India & Sri Lanka)
• Calicotis epichlora (Meyrick, 1889) from New Zealand
• Calicotis euphanopis Meyrick, 1927 (from New Hebrides)
• Calicotis exclamationis Terada, 2016 (from Japan, Taiwan)
• Calicotis fissa Meyrick, 1921 (from Java)
• Calicotis griseella Sinev, 1988 (from Russia)
• Calicotis hygrophaes Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
• Calicotis inanis Meyrick, 1936 (from Java)
• Calicotis liriopis Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
• Calicotis luteella Sinev, 1988 (from Russia)
• Calicotis microgalopsis Lower, 1904 (from Australia)
• Calicotis phanta Bradley, 1957 (from Rennel island)
• Calicotis praeusta Meyrick, 1922 (from Fiji)
• Calicotis punctifera Turner, 1941 (from Australia)
• Calicotis rhizomorpha Meyrick, 1927 (from Samoa)
• Calicotis rotundinidus Terada, 2016 (from Japan, Taiwan)
• Calicotis sialota Turner, 1917 (from Australia)
• Calicotis steropodes Meyrick, 1897 (from Australia)
• Calicotis suspecta Meyrick, 1921 (from Java)
• Calicotis tridora Meyrick, 1911 (from the Seychelles)
• Calicotis triplecta Meyrick, 1913 (from South Africa)
• Calicotis triploesta Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
• Calicotis tumida Meyrick, 1913 (from Sri Lanka)
• Calicotis unctoria Meyrick, 1911 (from South Africa)
• Calicotis viscosa Meyrick, 1913 (from India)
• Calicotis xanthoscia Turner, 1923 (from Australia)

References

• Zong-Yu Shen, Takeshi Terada and Yu-Feng Hsu, 2022. The Newly Recorded Fern-spore Feeding Moths in the Genus Calicotis, Meyrick 1889 (Lepidoptera: Stathmopodidae) from Taiwan, with Notes on Life History of Three Species
• Bippus, 2020. Records of Lepidoptera from the Malagasy region with description of new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Noctuidae, Alucitidae, Choreutidae, Euteliidae, Gelechiidae, Blastobasidae, Pterophoridae, Tonzidae. - Phelsuma
• Markku Savela's ftp.funet.fi

Notes and References

1. 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108040. 1055-7903. 194. 108040. Shen. Zong-Yu. Terada. Takeshi. Landry. Jean-François. Hoare. Robert J. B.. Kuo. Li-Yaung. Chou. Ming-Hsun. Hsu. Yu-Feng. Huang. Jen-Pan. Systematics and evolutionary dynamics of insect-fern interactions in the specialized fern-spore feeding Cuprininae (Lepidoptera, Stathmopodidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2024-07-08. 2024-05-01.