Cophomantella is a genus of moths in the family Lecithoceridae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940. The name of this genus is a replacement name for Cophomantis Meyrick.[1]

Cophomantella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Cophomantella
T. B. Fletcher, 1940 (repl. name)
Synonyms
  • Cophomantis Meyrick, 1925

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge (1940). "New generic names for microlepidoptera". The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. 52 (2): 17-1.
  • De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Cophomantella Fletcher T. B., 1940". Afromoths. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
  • Savela, Markku. "Cophomantella Fletcher, 1940". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 21, 2018.