Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Homaledra Busck, 1900 . Proc. U.S. natn. Mus. 23 : 236.

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
GELECHIOIDEA : COLEOPHORIDAE

Type-species:
Homaledra heptathalama Busck , 1900 Proc. U.S. natn. Mus. 23 : 237, pl.1 fig.10. .

Type-species designation:
by original designation

Notes:
Nye & Fletcher (1991) included HOMALEDRA in the family COLEOPHORIDAE.

Hodges, in Kristensen (1999) included HOMALEDRA in the subfamily BATRACHEDRIDAE : BATRACHEDRINAE.

Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:-

Homaledra was included in the "Cosmopterygidae" by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 111; it was included in the Coleophoridae : Batrachedrinae by Hodges, 1983, in Hodges et al., Check List Lepid. Am. N. of Mexico: 17.