Silosca

Silosca is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[2] The genus was described in 1965 by Hungarian entomologist László Anthony Gozmány.

Silosca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tineidae
Subfamily:
Siloscinae
Genus:
Silosca

Gozmány, 1965
Type species
Silosca mariae
Gozmány, 1965[1]

All species in this genus are only known from African countries.

Species
  • Silosca comorensis Gozmány, 1968
  • Silosca hypsocola Gozmány, 1968
  • Silosca licziae Gozmány, 1967
  • Silosca mariae Gozmány, 1965
  • Silosca savannae Gozmány, 1968
  • Silosca somnis Gozmány, 1967
  • Silosca superba Gozmány, 1967

References
  1. Gozmány, 1965. Some collections of Tineid moths from Africa (Microlepidoptera). - Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 11(3–4):253–294.
  2. afromoths
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