Cophomantella Explained

Cophomantella is a genus of moths in the family Lecithoceridae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940. The name of this genus is a replacement name for Cophomantis Meyrick.^[1]

Species

• Cophomantella alphanozoma (Meyrick, 1926) (Sierra Leone and Uganda)
• Cophomantella artonoma (Meyrick, 1936) (from Congo)
• Cophomantella bifrenata (Meyrick, 1921) (South Africa and Tanzania)
• Cophomantella bythota (Meyrick, 1916) (Ghana)
• Cophomantella crypsizyga (Meyrick, 1914) (from Malawi)
• Cophomantella cubiculata (Meyrick, 1911) (Seychelles)
• Cophomantella cyclopodes (Meyrick, 1922) (from Tanzania)
• Cophomantella elaphopis (Meyrick, 1910) (India)
• Cophomantella eremota (Meyrick, 1911) (Sri Lanka)
• Cophomantella furnaria (Meyrick, 1913) (from South Africa)
• Cophomantella homogramma (Meyrick, 1918) (from South Africa)
• Cophomantella lychnocentra (Meyrick, 1904) (Tasmania)
• Cophomantella myadelpha (Meyrick, 1910) (India)
• Cophomantella osphrantica (Meyrick, 1929) (India)
• Cophomantella pumicata (Meyrick, 1929) (India)
• Cophomantella syngonarcha (Meyrick, 1926) (from Uganda)

References

• Web site: De Prins . J. . De Prins . W. . amp . 2017 . Cophomantella Fletcher T. B., 1940 . Afromoths . March 21, 2018.
• Web site: Savela . Markku . Cophomantella Fletcher, 1940 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . March 21, 2018.

Notes and References

1. Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge (1940). "New generic names for microlepidoptera". The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. 52 (2): 17-1.