Xyloryctinae

Cryptophasa rubescens, copyright Donald Hobern.

Belongs within: Gelechioidea.

The Xyloryctinae are a group of small to medium-sized moths in which the hind wings have veins Rs and M₁ stalked or arising from the same point and divergent, and Sc+R₁ diverging from Rs well before the end of the cell. The gnathos in the male is not spinose (Nielsen & Common 1991).

<==Xyloryctinae [Xyloryctidae] NC91
    |--Telecrates laetiorella NC91
    |--Odites pudica P27
    |--Chalarotona intabescens NC91
    |--Eschatura lemurias P27
    |--Uzucha humeralis NC91
    |--Catoryctis eugramma NC91, P27
    |--Neodrepta luteotactella G84
    |--Oegocniites borisjaki RJ93
    |--Lichenaula NC91
    |    |--L. choriodes NC91
    |    `--L. lichenea NC91
    |--Scieropepla NC91
    |    |--S. reversella P27
    |    `--S. typhicola NC91
    |--Maroga NC91
    |    |--M. melanostigma NC91
    |    `--M. unipunctana P27
    |--Xylorycta NC91
    |    |--X. luteotactella NC91
    |    |--X. melaleuca P27
    |    `--X. strigata NC91
    `--Cryptophasa NC91
         |--C. ecclesiastis Meyrick 1887 M87
         |--C. irrorata M87
         |--C. leucadelpha Meyrick 1887 M87
         |--C. melanostigma C70
         |--C. nubila P27
         `--C. rubescens NC91

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[C70] Common, I. F. B. 1970. Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers pp. 765–866. Melbourne University Press.

[M87] Meyrick, E. 1887. Descriptions of new Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 1 (4): 1037–1048.

[NC91] Nielsen, E. S., & I. F. B. Common. 1991. Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers 2^nd ed. vol. 2 pp. 817–915. Melbourne University Press: Carlton (Victoria).

[P27] Philpott, A. 1927. The maxillae in the Lepidoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 721–746.

[RJ93] Ross, A. J., & E. A. Jarzembowski. 1993. Arthropoda (Hexapoda; Insecta). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 363–426. Chapman & Hall: London.