Genus:
Brachycyttarus Hampson, 1893
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Illust. typical spec. lepid. Het. Colln Br. Mus.
9 : 6 [list], 64, pl.159 fig.23, pl.176 fig.12.
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Status: Junior Homonym & Objective Synonym
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Homonyms:
2
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Higher classification:
TINEOIDEA : PSYCHIDAE : OIKETICINAE
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Type-species:
Acanthopsyche
subteralbata
Hampson, 1893.
Fauna Br. India
(Moths),
1: 295, fig 203 (3).
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Type-species designation:
by monotypy
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Type specimens:
See BHL scanned Type-species page: . |
Notes:
Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:-
Brachycyttarus was established to denote a subgenus of Acanthopsyche Heylaerts, 1881.
Brachycyttarus was again proposed (but as a new genus) and A. subteralbata was again proposed (but as Brachycyttarus subalbatus) by Hampson, 1893 [February 25], Illust. typical Specimens Lepid. Heterocera Colln Br. Mus. 9: 6, 65, pl.159 fig.23, pl.176 fig.12.
BRACHYCYTTARUS was included within the subfamily PSYCHIDAE: OIKETICINAE by Davis & Robinson, in Kristensen (1999).
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Senior name:
Brachycyttarus Hampson, 1893: 295.
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