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Leptozestis

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Leptozestis is a genus of moths in the family Elachistidae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyElachistidae
Observations20

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
27
Family
Elachistidae
Collections
NMV, TMAG, AM, USNM
Recorded in
Australia

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  • Former species
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Leptozestis is a genus of moths in the family Elachistidae.

==Species== Leptozestis anagrapta (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis antithetis (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis argoscia (Lower, 1904) Leptozestis autochroa (Meyrick, 1915) Leptozestis capnopora (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis cataspoda (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis charmosyna (Meyrick, 1921) Leptozestis chionomera Leptozestis crassipalpis (Turner, 1923) Leptozestis crebra (Meyrick, 1906) Leptozestis cyclonia (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis decalopha (Lower, 1904) Leptozestis ecstatica (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis epiphrixa (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis epochaea Leptozestis euryplaca (Lower, 1893) Leptozestis eximia (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis gnophodes (Lower, 1904) Leptozestis harmosta (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis hestiopa (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis melamydra Leptozestis melanopa (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis ochlopa (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis oxyptera Leptozestis parasica (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis perinephes Leptozestis phylactis (Meyrick, 1897) (misspelling Leptozestis plylactis) Leptozestis polychroa Leptozestis psarotricha (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis psoralea (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis sedula (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis spodoptera (Turner, 1923) Leptozestis strophicodes (Meyrick, 1917) Leptozestis tephras (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis toreutica (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis tropaea (Meyrick, 1897) Leptozestis valida (Meyrick, 1919)

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