Autosticha

Autosticha
	Autosticha gelechid moth (Autosticha pelodes)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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]

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]

Species

Species of Autosticha are:^[4]

Autosticha academica Meyrick, 1922
Autosticha acharacta Meyrick, 1918
Autosticha affixella (Walker, 1864)
Autosticha ansata Meyrick, 1931
Autosticha aspasta Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha arcivalvaris S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha aureolata Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha authaema (Meyrick, 1906)
Autosticha auxodelta Meyrick, 1916
Autosticha bacilliformis S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha banauscopa (Meyrick, 1929)
Autosticha bilobella Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha binaria Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha calceata Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha chernetis (Meyrick, 1906)
Autosticha chishuiensis S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha chlorodelta (Meyrick, 1906)
Autosticha cipingensis S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha complexivalvula S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha conciliata Meyrick, 1918
Autosticha conjugipunctata S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha consimilis Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha crocothicta Meyrick, 1916
Autosticha cuspidata Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha dayuensis Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha deductella (Walker, 1864)
Autosticha demetrias Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha demias Meyrick, 1886
Autosticha demotica Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha dianeura Meyrick, 1939
Autosticha dimochla Meyrick, 1935
Autosticha emmetra Meyrick, 1921
Autosticha encycota Meyrick, 1922
Autosticha enervata Meyrick, 1929
Autosticha euryterma Meyrick, 1920
Autosticha exemplaris Meyrick, 1916
Autosticha fallaciosa S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha flavescens Meyrick, 1916
Autosticha flavida S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha guangdongensis Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha guttulata Meyrick, 1925
Autosticha hainanica Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha heteromalla S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha imitativa Ueda, 1997
Autosticha iterata Meyrick, 1916
Autosticha kyotensis (Matsumura, 1931)
Autosticha latiuncusa Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha leucoptera J. F. G. Clarke, 1986
Autosticha leukosa Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha lushanensis Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha maculosa S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha menglunica S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha merista Clarke, 1971
Autosticha microphilodema S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha mingchrica Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha mirabilis S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha modicella (Christoph, 1882)
Autosticha nanchangensis S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha naulychna Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha nothriforme (Walsingham, 1897)
Autosticha nothropis Meyrick, 1921
Autosticha oxyacantha S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha pachysticta (Meyrick, 1936)
Autosticha pelaea Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha pelodes (Meyrick, 1883) – autosticha gelechid moth
Autosticha pentagona Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha perixantha Meyrick, 1914
Autosticha petrotoma Meyrick, 1916
Autosticha phaulodes Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha protypa Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha pyungyangenis Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha rectipunctata S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha relaxata Meyrick, 1916
Autosticha shenae S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha shexianica S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha siccivora Meyrick, 1935
Autosticha sichunica Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha silacea Bradley, 1962
Autosticha sinica Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha solita Meyrick, 1923
Autosticha solomonensis Bradley, 1957
Autosticha spilochorda Meyrick, 1916
Autosticha squarrosa S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha stagmatopis Meyrick, 1923
Autosticha strenuella (Walker, 1864)
Autosticha suwonensis Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha symmetra (Turner, 1919)
Autosticha taiwana Park & Wu, 2003
Autosticha tetrapeda Meyrick, 1908
Autosticha tetragonopa (Meyrick, 1935)
Autosticha thermopis Meyrick, 1923
Autosticha tianmushana S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha triangulimaculella (Caradja, 1928)
Autosticha truncicola Ueda, 1997
Autosticha valvidentata S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha valvifida S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha vicularis Meyrick, 1911
Autosticha wufengensis S.X.Wang, 2004
Autosticha xanthographa Meyrick, 1916

Some of these might belong in other genera of Autostichinae, such as the supposedly monotypic Stoeberhinus.

Former species

Autosticha opaca (Meyrick, 1931)
Autosticha philodema (Meyrick, 1938)

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Pitkin & Jenkins (2004a), ABRS (2008)
^ Clarke (1986)
^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004b)
^ Clarke (1986), ABRS (2008), Wikispecies (2011-APR-29)

Data related to Autosticha at Wikispecies

References

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Wang, S.-X. (2004). "A systematic study of Autosticha Meyrick from China, with descriptions of Twenty-Three new species (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae)". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 29 (1): 38–62.