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Compsoctena

Number: 6889.0
Author: Zeller
Family: Eriocottidae
Genus: Compsoctena
Journal: Lepid. Microptera
Year: 1852
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 86
Ref Id: 11684.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Compsocteninae
Superfamily: Tineoidea
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Zeller
Type Sp Journal: Lepid. Microptera
Type Sp Page: 87
Type Sp Year: 1852
Type Sp Ref Id: 11684.0
Type Sp Genus: Compsoctena
Type Sp: primella
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=COMPSOCTENA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriocottidae']
Memo: Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:- Zeller's Lepid. Microptera... : 1-120, was published separately in advance of its publication in K. Vetensk.Akad. Handl. 1852: 1-120. Compsoctena was included in the Tineidae by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 53; it was included in the Psychidae by Dalla Torre & Strand, 1929, in Strand, Lepid. Cat. 34: 18; and transferred to the Compsoctenidae, now Eriocottidae Compscoteninae, by Dierl, 1970, Veröff. zool. stSamml. Münch. 14: 3. The Compsoctenidae Dierl, 1968 was retained as subfamily within the Eriocottidae, by Nielson, 1978, Entomologica Scandinavica 9 (4) : 294. COMPSOCTENA was included within the subfamily ERIOCOTTIDAE: COMPSOCTENINAE by Davis & Robinson, in Kristensen (1999).

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