Catalectis

Catalectis is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. C. pharetropa was once mistaken for a species of Clepticodes, and Oenoe drosoptila of the Meessiinae was also proposed as a species of Catalectis; ít may be that these are all, in fact, closely related.^[1]

Catalectis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Incertae sedis
Genus:	Catalectis Meyrick, 1920
Type species
Catalectis pharetropa Meyrick, 1920
Species
3, see text

Only three species are presently contained in this genus:^[2]

• Catalectis flexa Bradley, 1957
• Catalectis pharetropa Meyrick, 1920 (= C. clasmatica)
• Catalectis ptilozona Meyrick, 1923