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Palaeomystis

Number: 21051.0
Author: Meyrick
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Palaeomystis
Journal: Exotic Microlepid.
Year: 1931
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 55
Ref Id: 10546.0
Status: Junior homonym
Subfamily: Agonoxeninae
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Volume: 4
Senior Syn: PALAEOMYSTELLA
Senior Syn Author: Fletcher
Senior Syn Page: 18
Senior Syn Year: 1940
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Meyrick
Type Sp Journal: Exotic Microlepid.
Type Sp Page: 55
Type Sp Volume: 4
Type Sp Year: 1931
Type Sp Ref Id: 10546.0
Type Sp Genus: Palaeomystis
Type Sp: chalcopeda
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elachisitdae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PALAEOMYSTIS']
Memo: Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:- A junior homonym of Palaeomystis Warren 1894, Novit. zool. 1: 379, - Lepid., Geometridae. The objective replacement name is Palaeomystella Fletcher, 1940. Palaeomystis was established in the "Cosmopterygidae"; it was placed in the Agonoxenidae by Becker, 1984, in Heppner, Atlas neotrop. Lepid. 2 (Checklist 1): 58.

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Dataset buttmoth
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Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c