Autosticha

Autosticha
	Autosticha gelechid moth (Autosticha pelodes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Autostichidae
Subfamily:	Autostichinae
Genus:	Autosticha; Meyrick, 1886
Type species
	Automola pelodes; Meyrick, 1883
Synonyms
	Automola Meyrick, 1883 (non Loew, 1873: preoccupied); Prosomura Turner, 1919; Epicharma Durrant in Walsingham & Durrant[verification needed], 1897*Epicoenia Meyrick, 1906; Semnolocha Meyrick, 1936;

Autosticha is a genus of gelechioid moths. It belongs to the subfamily Autostichinae, which is either placed in the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae), or in an expanded Autostichidae. It is the type genus of its subfamily (and the Autostichidae). Originally, this genus was named Automola, but this name properly refers to a fly genus in family Richardiidae.^[1]

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Type species ...

Typically, these moths have the second and third forewing vein emerging from a common stalk. The labial palps are characteristically tapering from the second segment onwards and end in a pointed tip.^[2]

Several originally independent genera are now included here, and while most of them are probably not even valid as subgenera, some species included in Autosticha have been historically assigned to entirely different Gelechioidea lineages, such as the long-horned moths (Lecithoceridae) or the Xyloryctidae.^[3]

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Autosticha

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