PHILOBOTA GROUP in Australia OECOPHORINAE OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

PHILOBOTA GROUP caterpillars

PHILOBOTA GROUP moths

PHILOBOTA GROUP undersides

Here are some common members of the approximately 378 named Australian species of the PHILOBOTA GROUP :

Diplogephyra amblyteles
Diplogephyra sciophanes

Echinocosma catachrysa

Eusemocosma pruinosa

Gymnocoila callimeris

Haplodyta anisochroa
Haplodyta brachyomis

Haplodyta panxantha
Haplodyta polybotrya

Isomoralla amylodes
Isomoralla curriculata
Isomoralla eriscota

Isomoralla eucista
Isomoralla gephyrota

Isomoralla omichlota
Isomoralla philotherma
Isomoralla pyrrhoptera

Palimmeces autophaia
Palimmeces concolor

Palimmeces gypsota
Palimmeces habrophanes
Palimmeces hemiphanes

Palimmeces ithysticha
Palimmeces leucomitra
Palimmeces leucopelta

Palimmeces phoryntis
Palimmeces poecilella

Palimmeces psarophanes
Palimmeces pseudomorpha

Palimmeces stephanota
Palimmeces variegata

Philobota acompsa
Philobota acroplaca
Philobota acropola

Philobota aethalea
Philobota agnesella

Philobota amblys
Philobota ancylotoxa
Philobota angustella

Philobota apora
Philobota arabella

Philobota archepeda
Philobota argotoxa
Philobota atmobola

Philobota austalea
Philobota auxolyca
Philobota baryptera

Philobota bathrogramma
Philobota bathrophaea

Philobota byrsochra
Philobota calamaea

Philobota cephalochrysa
Philobota chionoptera

Philobota chlorella
Philobota chrysopotama
Philobota cirrhocephala

Philobota crassinervis
Philobota cretacea

Philobota cryptea
Philobota curvilinea

Philobota delosema
Philobota diaereta

Philobota egena
Philobota ellenella
Philobota embologramma

Philobota epipercna
Philobota erebodes

Philobota fumifera
Philobota futilis

Philobota hemichrysa
Philobota heptasticta

Philobota humerella
Philobota hydara

Philobota hylophila
Philobota hypocausta

Philobota ignava
Philobota impletella

Philobota incompta
Philobota iphigenes

Philobota isomora
Philobota latifissella
Philobota laxeuta

Philobota leptomita
Philobota limenarcha

Philobota lonchota
Philobota lysizona

Philobota marcens
Philobota mathematica
Philobota melanoglypta

Philobota microxantha
Philobota moestella
Philobota monoides
Philobota monospila
Philobota mucida

Philobota nephelarcha
Philobota nephelota

Philobota ochlophila
Philobota olympias
Philobota orescoa

Philobota pacifera
Philobota paragypsa
Philobota partitella
Philobota pedetis : Spotty Philobota

Philobota perpetua
Philobota philostaura
Philobota physaula

Philobota pilidiota
Philobota pilipes

Philobota prepodes
Philobota productella

Philobota profuga
Philobota protecta

Philobota scieropa
Philobota scitula

Philobota sobrina
Philobota sophia
Philobota sordidella

Philobota sphenoleuca
Philobota stella

Philobota stramentaria
Philobota strigatella

Philobota thiobaphes
Philobota thiocrossa
Philobota thiogramma

Philobota tranquilla
Philobota transversella
Philobota trigonosema
Philobota xanthastis

Philobota xanthoprepes
Philobota xerodes

Philobota xiphopepla
Philobota xiphostola

Philobota zalias
Philobota ES2

Prepocosma phaeostephes
Prepocosma schalidota

Prepocosma subtilis
Prepocosma tropica

Prodelodes samphoras

Stereocheta gummosa

Stereocheta sciocrossa

Telocharacta hemicroca
Telocharacta metachroa

The species in the genus Philobota are subdivided into 11 groups:

Philobota angustella group,

Philobota arabella group,

Philobota argotoxa group,

Philobota cirrhocephala group,

Philobota embologramma group,

Philobota hydara group,

Philobota impletella group,

Philobota laxeuta group,

Philobota mathematica group,

Philobota monospila group,

Philobota nephelota group.

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(written 16 November 2018, updated 31 July 2023)