Silosca is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[2] The genus was described in 1965 by Hungarian entomologist László Anthony Gozmány.

Silosca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Siloscinae
Genus: Silosca
Gozmány, 1965
Type species
Silosca mariae
Gozmány, 1965[1]

All species in this genus are only known from African countries.

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ Gozmány, 1965. Some collections of Tineid moths from Africa (Microlepidoptera). - Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 11(3–4):253–294.
  2. ^ afromoths