Crassuncus Explained
Crassuncus is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Taxonomy
The genus was erected by C. Gibeaux in 1994 and is currently assigned to tribe Oidaematophorini. Several of its species were originally described in genus Pterophorus.
Distribution
The genus has an Afrotropical distribution, with species recorded from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa and on Madagascar.
Species
, the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following species for genus Crassuncus:
- Crassuncus colubratus (Meyrick, 1909)
- Crassuncus defectus (Bigot & Luquet, 1991)
- Crassuncus ecstaticus (Meyrick, 1932)
- Crassuncus ermakovae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2017
- Crassuncus hawkingi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2016
- Crassuncus kenzo Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2017
- Crassuncus koperbergi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2016
- Crassuncus livingstoni Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2014
- Crassuncus orophilus Gibeaux, 1994
- Crassuncus pacifica (Meyrick, 1911)
- Crassuncus pseudolaudatus (Gibeaux, 1992)
- Crassuncus timidus (Meyrick, 1908)
- Crassuncus tripunctatus (Walsingham, 1881)
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