Monochroa is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae.

Monochroa
Monochroa servella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Anomologinae
Genus: Monochroa
Heinemann, 1870[1]
Synonyms
  • Catabrachmia Rebel, 1909
  • Paltodora Meyrick, 1894
  • Opacochroa Omelko, 1998
  • Iridesna Omelko, 1998

Species

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Status unclear

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  • Monochroa decolorella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854), described as Anacampsia decolorella from Austria. Synonym: Doryphora luteella Heinemann, 1870
  • Monochroa griseella (Heinemann, 1870), described as Doryphora griseella from Switzerland.
  • Monochroa rhenanella (Heyden, 1863), described as Gelechia rhenanella from Germany.

Selected former species

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References

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  • Bidzilya, O., 2000: New records of gelechiid moths from the Southern Siberia with description of three new species. Beiträge zur Entomologie 50 (2): 385-395.
  • Huemer, P. & O. Karsholt, 2010: A new endemic species of Monochroa from the south-western Alps (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zeitschrift de Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Österreichischen Entomologen 62: 81-86.
  • Lee, S.; Hodges, R.W.; Brown, R.L. 2009: Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico. Zootaxa, 2231: 1-39. Abstract & excerpt
  • Junnilainen, J. & K. Nupponen, 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part I: descriptions of seventeen new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 2366: 1-34. Abstract: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02366p034f.pdf].
  • Omelko M.M. & Omelko N.V., 2010: New find of the Subfamily Anomologinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from the Primorsky district. Amurian zoological journal II(1): 52-56. (in Russian) Full article: [1].
  • Sakamaki, Y., 1994: Monochroa cleodora (MEYRICK), comb. n. (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) and its Allied New Species from Japan. Japanese Journal of Entomology 62 (1): 167-174. Full article: [2].
  • Sakamaki, Y., 1996: Notes on Japanese Species of the Genus Monochroa with Descriptions of Two New Species (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae). Japanese journal of entomology 64(2): 245-254. Full article: [3].
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