Genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825

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• Mesophleps Hübner, J. 1825. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge [sic]. Augsburg (1816–[1825]) 431 pp. [406].

  Type species:

   Tinea silacella Hübner, 1796 by subsequent designation, see Meyrick, E. 1925. Lepidoptera Heterocera. Fam. Gelechiadae. Genera Insectorum 184: 1-290, pls 1-5 [168].
• Brachyacma Meyrick, E. 1886. Descriptions of Lepidoptera from the South Pacific. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1886: 189-296 [278].

  Type species:

   Brachyacma epiochra Meyrick, 1886 by monotypy.
• Lathontogenus Walsingham, Lord 1897. Revision of the West-Indian Micro-Lepidoptera with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 54-183 [87].

  Type species:

   Lathontogenus adustipennis Walsingham, 1897 by original designation.
• Paraspistes Meyrick, E. 1905. Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16: 580-619 [600].

  Type species:

   Paraspistes ioloncha Meyrick, 1905 by monotypy.
• Lipatia Busck, A. 1910. A new Tineid from Trinadad. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Trinidad & Tobago 9: 4 pp. [243].

  Type species:

   Lipatia crotalariella Busck, 1910 by original designation.
• Brachiacma Common, I.F.B. 1970. Lepidoptera (Moths and butterflies). pp. 765-866, pls 7, 8 in Mackerras, I.M. (ed.). The Insects of Australia: a textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press 1029, 8 pls. [misspel.].
• Xerometra Meyrick, E. 1925. Lepidoptera Heterocera. Fam. Gelechiadae. Genera Insectorum 184: 1-290, pls 1-5 [18 (key), 170].

  Type species:

   Nothris crocina Meyrick, 1904 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) ; NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; SA, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP) ; WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)

General References

Li, H. & Sattler, K. 2012. A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1–82

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