Genus Peritornenta Turner, 1900

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• Peritornenta Turner, A.J. 1900. New Micro-lepidoptera — mostly from Queensland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24: 6-23 [13].

  Type species:

   Cryptolechia circulatella Walker, 1864 by subsequent designation, see Meyrick, E. 1902. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera (Oecophoridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26: 133-174 [162].
• Peritorneuta Meyrick, E. 1902. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera (Oecophoridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26: 133-174 [162] [emend.].

General References

Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [95] (Note #141: Peritornenta Turner, 1900. This name was published by Turner for a group of three species, attributing it, as a manuscript name, to Meyrick. In his personal copy of the 1900 paper, Turner corrected the name to Peritorneuta, and this spelling was subsequently used by Meyrick (1902c). However, Turner did not indicate in any published work that a typographical error had occurred)

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