Oxychirota

Oxychirota
Oxychirota paradoxa, Thornton Beach, QLD, Australia, 26 March 2025
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineodidae
Genus: Oxychirota
Meyrick, 1885

Oxychirota is a small moth genus of the family Tineodidae or false plume moths. Edward Meyrick named it in 1885[1] for the Australian species Oxychirota paradoxa.[2]

There are currently three named species:[2]

  • Oxychirota ceylonica Hampson, 1906
  • Oxychirota mesocola Hampson, 1906
  • Oxychirota paradoxa Meyrick, 1885

References

  1. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1885). "On the classification of the Australian Pyralidina". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 33: 421–456.
  2. 1 2 Hobern, Donald. "Catalogue of World Alucitoidea". Retrieved 16 April 2026.
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