Afrocelestis

Afrocelestis is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.^[2]

Afrocelestis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Scardiinae
Genus:	Afrocelestis Gozmány, 1965[1]
Type species
Afrocelestis evertata Gozmány, 1965[1]

The name of this genus is derived from Africa+Celestis Meyrick.

It contains small species. Hairs loose, wings short and broad, cilia long. The species have whitish or yellowish ground coloration, the pattern is brownish, consisting of indistinct marginal spots and some transversal striae or stripes.

Male genitalia: resembling Celestica but uncus bilobate and strongly sclerotized. Tegumen very narrow dorsally, valvae tripartite into various shaped lobes of a complicate structure; no gnathos; aedeagus about as long as saccus, tubular and simple, no cornuti or coremata.^[3]

Species

Some species of this genus are:^[4]

• Afrocelestis evertata Gozmány, 1965
• Afrocelestis inanis Gozmány, 1968
• Afrocelestis lochaea (Meyrick, 1911)
• Afrocelestis minuta (Gozmány, 1965)
• Afrocelestis sacculata Gozmány, 1968