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Menesta

Number: 17579.0
Author: Clemens
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84757#page/222/mode/2up
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Menesta
Journal: Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad.
Year: 1860
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 213
Ref Id: 1057.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Stenomatinae
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Volume: 1860
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Clemens
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84757#page/222/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad.
Type Sp Page: 213
Type Sp Volume: 12
Type Sp Year: 1860
Type Sp Ref Id: 1057.0
Type Sp Genus: Menesta
Type Sp: tortriciformella
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MENESTA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oecophoridae']
Memo: Nye & Fletcher (1991) included MENESTA in the subfamily OECOPHORIDAE: STENOMINAE, treated by Hodges, in Kristensen (1999) as ELACHISTIDAE: STENOMATINAE. Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:- Menesta was included in the Cryptophasidae, now Oecophoridae Xyloryctinae, by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 137; was included in the Stenomidae by Busck, 1935, in Strand, Lepid. Cat. 67: 5. See also: * Menestra Ckhambers, 1878.

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Dataset buttmoth
Dataset ID f8bc9b9c-009a-4689-bd01-ed621095c457
Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c