Genus Epicephala Meyrick, 1880

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• Epicephala Meyrick, E. 1881. Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. III Tineina. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5(1): 132–182, 204–271 [137 [key], 168].

  Type species:

   Epicephala colymbetella Meyrick, 1880 by monotypy.
• Iraina Diakonoff, A. 1955. Microlepidoptera of New Guinea. Results of the third Archbold Expedition (American-Netherlands Indian Expedition 1938-1939. Part 5. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen [Verh. Akad. Amsterdam] 2 ser. 50(3): 1-210 [84 [key], 92-93] [Synonymised by Vári (1961: xii, 42).].

  Type species:

   Iraina periplecta Diakonoff, 1955 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Vári, L. 1961. South African Lepidoptera. Volume I. Lithocolletidae. Transvaal Museum Memoirs 12: 1-238 [xii, 42].
• Leiocephala Kuznetzov, V.I. & Baryshnikova, S.V. 2001. New and little-known Asian species of the leaf miners (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta RAN 291: 31-46 [32-33].

  Type species:

   Epicephala colymbetella Meyrick, 1880 by original designation.

Introduction

Leiocephala was established to denote a subgenus of Epicephala Meyrick, 1880. It was placed in synonymy by De Prins & De Prins (2005: 177).

General References

de Prins, W.O. & de Prins, J. 2005. Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera). World Catalogue Of Insects Stenstrup, Denmark : Apollo Books Vol. 6 502 pp. [177]

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