PHILOBOTA GROUP in Australia
 OECOPHORINAE
OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@outlook.com)
and
Stella Crossley

PHILOBOTA
GROUP

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

Diplogephyra sciophanes

Echinocosma catachrysa

Eusemocosma pruinosa

Gymnocoila callimeris

Haplodyta brachyomis

Isomoralla curriculata
Isomoralla eriscota
Isomoralla gephyrota
Isomoralla philotherma
Isomoralla pyrrhoptera

Microbela allocoma
Microbela epicona
Microbela monodyas

Palimmeces concolor
Palimmeces habrophanes
Palimmeces hemiphanes
Palimmeces leucomitra
Palimmeces leucopelta
Palimmeces poecilella
Palimmeces variegata

Philobota acropola
Philobota agnesella
Philobota ancylotoxa
Philobota angustella
Philobota arabella
Philobota argotoxa
Philobota atmobola
Philobota auxolyca
Philobota baryptera
Philobota bathrophaea
Philobota calamaea
Philobota chionoptera
Philobota chrysopotama
Philobota cirrhocephala
Philobota cretacea
Philobota curvilinea
Philobota diaereta
Philobota ellenella
Philobota embologramma
Philobota erebodes
Philobota futilis
Philobota heptasticta
Philobota hydara
Philobota hypocausta
Philobota impletella
Philobota iphigenes
Philobota latifissella
Philobota laxeuta
Philobota limenarcha
Philobota lysizona
Philobota mathematica
Philobota melanoglypta
Philobota moestella
Philobota monoides
Philobota monospila
Philobota mucida
Philobota nephelota
Philobota olympias
Philobota orescoa
Philobota paragypsa
Philobota partitella
Philobota pedetis
Philobota philostaura
Philobota physaula
Philobota pilipes
Philobota productella
Philobota protecta
Philobota scitula
Philobota sophia
Philobota sordidella
Philobota stella
Philobota strigatella
Philobota thiocrossa
Philobota thiogramma
Philobota transversella
Philobota trigonosema
Philobota xanthastis
Philobota xerodes
Philobota xiphostola
Philobota ES2

Prepocosma schalidota
Prepocosma tropica

Prodelodes samphoras

Stereocheta gummosa

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 December 2018, 1 December 2019, 19 February 2020)