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

Genus:
Prosthesis Walsingham, 1907 . Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1907 : 953.    [BHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
GELECHIOIDEA : BLASTOBASIDAE

Type-species:
Prosthesis exclusa Walsingham, 1907. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. : 953, pl.52 fig.5.    [BHL]

Type-species designation:
by original designation .

Type specimens:
See BHL scanned Type-species page: .

Notes:
Nye & Fletcher (1991) included PROSTHESIS in the family BLASTOBASIDAE, treated by Hodges, in Kristensen (1999) as a subfamily of COLEOPHORIDAE.

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