Monotypic moth genera

Schausiana is a monotypic moth genus of the family Hepialidae described by Pierre Viette in 1950. The only described species is Schausiana trojesa, described by William Schaus in 1901, which is endemic to Mexico.

Acrophiletis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Acrophiletis cosmocrossa, which is found in Bolivia.

Anassodes is a monotypic snout moth genus. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1932, and contains the species Anassodes mesozonalis. It is found in Australia, including the type location of Western Australia.

Cabotella is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Boris Balinsky in 1994. Its only species, Cabotella inconspicua, described in the same publication, is found in South Africa.

Calamotropodes is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse in 1922. Its only species, Calamotropodes grisella, described in the same publication, is found in Zimbabwe.

Oryctopleura is a monotypic snout moth genus. Its only species, Oryctopleura arcuatalis, was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1891. It is found in Brazil.

Microzancla is a monotypic snout moth genus. Its single species, Microzancla ignitalis, was described by George Hampson in 1897. It is found in the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Calanesia is a genus of moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It contains only one species, Calanesia karsholti, which is found in Tunisia, North Africa.

Chaliniastis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Chaliniastis astrapaea, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and New South Wales.

Lenisa is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Michael Fibiger, Alberto Zilli and László Aladár Ronkay in 2005. Its only species, Lenisa geminipuncta, was first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809. It is found in southern and central Europe, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, Iraq and in the Caucasus. Some authors place this genus name as a synonym Archanara, and the species as Archanara geminipuncta.

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Allophlebia is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Allophlebia hemizancla, which is found in South Africa.

Amurrhyparia is a monotypic tiger moth genus in the family Erebidae erected by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 1985. Its only species, Amurrhyparia leopardina, was first described by Embrik Strand in 1919. It is found in Russia (southeastern Transbaikalia, Amur, and Primorye) and China (Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet, and Sichuan).

Neotheoridae, or Amazonian primitive ghost moths, is a primitive family of insects in the lepidopteran order containing a single genus and species, Neotheora chiloides.

Neocymbopteryx is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Neocymbopteryx heitzmani, which is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arkansas.

Lophobela sinuosa is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae, and the only species in the genus Lophobela. The species and genus were both described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1917 and are found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

Trichophiala is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1879. Its only species, Trichophiala devylderi, was described by the same author in the same year. It is found in Namibia.

Gorama is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Francis Walker in 1866. Its single species, Gorama strenuella, was described by the same person in the same year, and is known from the Sula Islands.

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Anephopteryx is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1955. It contains the species A. designella, described by the same author, found in Iraq.

Syndesmica is a moth genus. It is here placed in subfamily Dichomeridinae of family Gelechiidae, though some authors assign it to the Autostichinae which belong elsewhere in the Gelechioidea. The genus consists of only one species, Syndesmica homogenes, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

Ephedroxena is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Ephedroxena incisoria, which is found in Guyana.

Mimozela is a monotypic moth genus in the family Depressariidae. Its only species, Mimozela rhoditis, is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1914.

Apothetoeca is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Apothetoeca synaphrista, which is found on the Galapagos Islands.

Cataxipha is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Cataxipha euxantha, which is found in Cameroon.

Avinoffia is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae containing only one species, Avinoffia hollandi. It is known from Cameroon, Gabon, Congo and Liberia.

Lysitona is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. , it contains only one species, Lysitona euryacta, which is found in Mozambique.

Rhypagla is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae erected by Ian W. B. Nye in 1975. Its only species, Rhypagla lacernaria, was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1813. It is found in northern Africa, southern Europe, Cyprus, Transcaucasia, the Middle East and Iran.

Epiborkhausenites is an extinct genus of moth in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae and containing a single species Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus. The species is known only from Middle Eocene, Bartonian stage, Baltic amber deposits near the town of Palanga in Lithuania.

Gibeauxia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Gibeauxia gibeauxi, which is found in French Guiana.

Plaesiostola is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Plaesiostola diaplintha, which is found on Borneo.

Caenosynteles is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. Its only species, Caenosynteles haploaria, is found in Mexico. Both the genus and species were described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1912.

Zeuxinia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Zeuxinia aeschrina, is found on Aldabra, a coral atoll in the Seychelles. Both the genus and the species were first described by Henry Legrand in 1966.

Chondrosoma is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Ludwig Anker in 1854. Its only species, Chondrosoma fiduciaria, was described by the same author in the same year. It is found in eastern Austria, Hungary and Slovakia. It has also been recorded from the Tarbagatai region in the Khangai Mountains and Siberia.

Pseudlithosia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by George Hampson in 1907. It contains only one species, Pseudlithosia schausi, described by the same author in the same year, which is found in Jalisco, Mexico.

Erismatica is a genus of moths in the family Sesiidae. Erismatica contains a single species, Erismatica erythropis, which can be found in Zimbabwe.

Nyctiplanes is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Nyctiplanes polypenthes, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

Chionoreas is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Chionoreas euryochtha, which is found on Borneo.

Pseudemodesa plenicornis is a moth in the family Drepanidae and the only species in the genus Pseudemodesa. It was described by Warren in 1899. It is found on the Louisiade Archipelago.

Ozana is a monotypic moth genus in the family Noctuidae erected by Emilio Berio in 1950. Its only species, Ozana chinensis, was first described by John Henry Leech in 1900. It is found in China.

Glycynympha roseocostella is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae, and the only species in the genus Glycynympha. The species was described, as Cryptolechia roseocostella, by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham in 1881 and is found in South Africa. The genus was established by Edward Meyrick in 1925.

Stanempista is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Roesler in 1969. It contains only one species Stanempista schawerdae, which is found in Spain.

Acompsogma is a monotypic moth genus in the family Xyloryctidae. Its only species, Acompsogma dioryctis, is found on New Guinea. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1938.

Heloscopa is a moth genus. It was placed initially in the family Tineidae of superfamily Tineoidea, but it appears to belong to the related Gelechoidea, and therein to subfamily Oecophorinae of the family Oecophoridae.

Catharia is a monotypic moth genus described by Julius Lederer in 1863. It contains the single species Catharia pyrenaealis described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1843. It is found in Central Europe.

Hedroxena is a genus of moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It contains only one species, Hedroxena barbara, which is found on the New Hebrides.

Haplophylax is a genus of moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It contains only one species, Haplophylax paraphanes, which is found in India.

Alloperissa is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Alloperissa creagraula, which is found on Fiji.

Prodoxoides asymmetra is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. It is found in the Valdivian temperate rain forest and humid Nothofagus-Chusqua forest along the border of Chile (Osorno Province) and Argentina (Río Negro Province). It is the only known Prodoxidae species in the Southern Hemisphere.

Glaucostolella is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Glaucostolella oxyteles, which is found in South Africa.

Opistoclanis is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing only one species Opistoclanis hawkeri.

Melanastia is a monotypic snout moth genus described by George Hampson in 1930. Its only species, Melanastia bicolor, described in the same article, is found in Nigeria and South Africa.

Brithyceros is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Brithyceros dichroanthes, which is found in Brazil.

Goniopalpia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by George Hampson in 1903. It contains only one species, Goniopalpia delicatalis, described in the same article, which is found in India.

Mimoschinia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Mimoschinia rufofascialis, the rufous-banded pyralid moth or barberpole caterpillar, which is found in the Caribbean, from Alberta to British Columbia, south to Texas and California and in Mexico.

Latagognoma is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Tams in 1935, and contains the species L. dacryodes. It is known from Samoa.

Glendotricha is an extinct genus in the superfamily Pyraloidea. It was described by Kusnezov in 1941, and contains the species G. olgae. It is known from Baltic amber.

Ocnophilella is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Tineidae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940. Its only species, Ocnophilella autocrypta, described by Edward Meyrick in 1926, was found in Western Cape, South Africa.

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Rodolphia is a genus of moths in the family Sesiidae containing only one species, Rodolphia hombergi, which is known from Madagascar.