Mendesia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gelechioidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Superfamilia: Gelechioidea

Familia: Xyloryctidae
Subfamilia: Scythridinae
Genus: Mendesia
Species: M. huemeri – M. metaxea – M. secutrix – M. serica

Name

Mendesia Joannis, 1902

Type species: Mendesia echiella Joannis, 1902

Synonyms

• Triboloneura Walsingham, 1908. TS: Elachista sepulchella Stainton, 1872

References

• Kaila, Lauri, 1995: A revision of the North American Perittia (= Onceroptila), with first nearctic records of the genus Mendesia (Elachistidae). Jounal of the Lepidopterists' Society 49 (3): 208–222. Full article: [1]
• Sruoga, Virginijus & Jurate de Prins, 2009, The Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) of Kenya with descriptions of eight new species, Zootaxa 2172: 1–31
• Traugott-Olsen, E., 1990: Descriptions of four new species of Elachistidae (Lepidoptera) and diagnoses of Elachista pollutella Duponchel, 1843 and Elachista constitella Frey, 1859.
• Traugott-Olsen, E., 1995: Phylogeny of the subfamily Elachistinae s. str. Part I: Mendesiini, with some taxonomic revision and descriptions of new taxa (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae). Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologica 23 (90): 153–180.