Lecithocerinae

Taxobox
name = Lecithocerinae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Glossata
infraordo Heteroneura
unranked_familia = Ditrysia
superfamilia = Gelechioidea
familia = Lecithoceridae
subfamilia = Lecithocerinae

Lecithocerinae is a subfamily of small moths in the family Lecithoceridae. They are found worldwide, but most species occur in South-Asia. The subfamily is characterized by the male genitalia with a bridge-like structure connecting the tegumen and the valva, and the uncus almost always vestigal with two lobes at the dorsal base, only exceptionally united into a broad plate, but never as a thorn or spine.

Older classifications have treated the family Lecithoceridae as subfamily Lecithocerinae of Gelechiidae.

The genera belonging here include:
*"Alciphanes"
*"Atrichozancla"
*"Carodista"
*"Catacreagra"
*"Dinochares"
*"Doxogenes"
*"Eurodachtha"
*"Frisilia"
*"Homaloxestis"
*"Issikiopteryx"
*"Lecithocera"
*"Lecitholaxa"
*"Odites"
*"Opacoptera"
*"Psammoris"
*"Quassitagma"
*"Spatulignatha"
*"Synesarga"
*"Tegenocharis"
*"Thailepidonia"
*"Timyra"
*"Tisis"

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