Xestocasis

Updated on Jan 02, 2025

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Rank Genus		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera
Family Oecophoridae (see text)

Xestocasis is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It was described in the family Heliodinidae and is sometimes also listed in the Cosmopterigidae, but actually seems to belong in the Oecophoridae (possibly in the subfamily Stathmopodinae).

Species

Xestocasis antirrhopa Diakonoff, 1955

Xestocasis balanochrysa Meyrick, 1915

Xestocasis colometra Meyrick, 1915

Xestocasis erymnota Meyrick, 1917

Xestocasis hololampra Meyrick, 1915

Xestocasis iostrota (Meyrick, 1910)

Xestocasis lauta (Meyrick, 1921)

Xestocasis tetraconcha Meyrick, 1917

Xestocasis crocodelta Meyrick, 1915

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