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Coelopoeta
Sign in to saveCoelopoeta is a relatively divergent genus of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea, which have only been found in western North America.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 8 inbound references to Coelopoeta, and connects out to taxonomic rank, Pterolonchidae and Oecophorinae.
Vinony files it under Gelechioidea and Moth genera.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Pterolonchidae
- Collections
- USNM, DMNS, CASC, EMEC
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Distribution
- Ecology
- References
Coelopoeta is a relatively divergent genus of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea, which have only been found in western North America.
Its relationships have been interpreted differently over the past century. It has been placed in the family Elachistidae, the family Oecophoridae, and the subfamily Coelopoetinae within the Elachistidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coelopoeta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.