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Acanthophila

Number: 100.0
Author: Heinemann
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Acanthophila
Journal: Schmett. Dtl. Schweiz
Year: 1870
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 320
Part: (1)
Ref Id: 9861.0
Series: (2)
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Subfamily unassigned
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Volume: 2
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Zeller
Type Sp Journal: Isis, Leipzig
Type Sp Page: 199
Type Sp Year: 1839
Type Sp Ref Id: 11673.0
Type Sp Genus: Gelechia
Type Sp: alacella
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelechiidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=ACANTHOPHILA']
Memo: Nye & Fletcher (1991) included ACANTHOPHILA in the family GELECHIIDAE. Hodges, in Kristensen (1999) included ACANTHOPHILA in the subfamily DICHOMERIDINAE. ACANTHOPHILA Heinemann, 1870 was referred to the ANACAMPSINAE from the GELECHIINAE (within the Gelechiidae) by Kuznetzov & Stekolnikov, 1984, Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 122 : 33. ACANTHOPHILA was treated in the GELECHIIDAE in Nye and Fletcher, 1991. Generic Names Moths World 6 : 2. Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:- See also: * ACANTHOPHILA Osthelder, 1951.

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Dataset buttmoth
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Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c