Trachonitis (moth)

Trachonitis
Trachonitis capensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Tribe:	Phycitini
Genus:	Trachonitis Zeller, 1848[1][2]
Type species
Tinea christella (Hübner, 1776)

Trachonitis is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1848.^[1]

Species

• Trachonitis capensis Hampson, 1901 (often placed in Flabellobasis)
• Trachonitis cristella (Hübner, 1776) (Europe)
• Trachonitis odilella Legrand, 1966 (from the Seychelles)
• Trachonitis renatella Legrand, 1966 (from the Seychelles)

References

• De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). Accessed 27 July 2014.

1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
2. Savela, Markku. "Trachonitis Zeller, 1848". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 25, 2017.