Cenoloba

Cenoloba
Cenoloba obliteralis, Moonee Beach, NSW, Australia, 9 October 2025
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineodidae
Genus: Cenoloba
Walsingham, 1885

Cenoloba is a small moth genus of the family Tineodidae or false plume moths. Lord Walsingham named it in 1885[1] as a plume moth (Pterophoridae) genus to hold Cenoloba obliteralis, a species originally described by Francis Walker in the genus Pterophorus.[2]

There are currently four named species:[2]

  • Cenoloba argochalca Meyrick, 1939
  • Cenoloba cuprescens Hampson, 1917
  • Cenoloba obliteralis (Walker, 1864)
  • Cenoloba taprobana Hampson, 1912


References

  1. ↑ "Characters of two new genera of Pterophoridae from specimens in the British Museum". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 21: 175–176. 1885.
  2. 1 2 Hobern, Donald. "Catalogue of World Alucitoidea". Retrieved 16 April 2026.
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