Dactylethrella
Sign in to saveDactylethrella is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940 and is a replacement name for Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906 (preoccupied by Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829).
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Dactylethrella is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940 and is a replacement name for Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906 (preoccupied by Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829).
==Taxonomy== The type species of both aforementioned genera is Dactylethra tetroctas Meyrick, 1906 from Sri Lanka, later a junior subjective synonym of Dactylethrella candida (Stainton, 1859).
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