Leptozestis
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Leptozestis is a genus of moth
in the family Cosmopterigidae
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Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
in the family Cosmopterigidae
Cosmopterigidae
Cosmopterigidae is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order. These are small moths with narrow wings whose tiny larvae feed internally on the leaves, seeds, stems, etc of their host plants. There are about 1,500 described species...
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Species
- Leptozestis acrocyrta
- Leptozestis acromianta
- Leptozestis anagrapta (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis antithetis (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis argoscia (Lower, 1904)
- Leptozestis autochroa (Meyrick, 1915)
- Leptozestis capnopora (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis cataspoda (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis chalcoptila (Meyrick, 1922)
- Leptozestis charmosyna (Meyrick, 1921)
- Leptozestis chionomera
- Leptozestis crassipalpis (Turner, 1923)
- Leptozestis crebra (Meyrick, 1906)
- Leptozestis cyclonia (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis decalopha (Lower, 1904)
- Leptozestis ecstatica (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis epiphrixa (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis epochaea
- Leptozestis euryplaca (Lower, 1893)
- Leptozestis eximia (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis fumea
- Leptozestis gnophodes (Lower, 1904)
- Leptozestis harmosta (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis hestiopa (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis macrostola
- Leptozestis melamydra
- Leptozestis melanopa (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis ochlopa (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis oxyptera
- Leptozestis parasica (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis perinephes
- Leptozestis phylactis (Meyrick, 1897) (misspelling Leptozestis plylactis)
- Leptozestis polychroa
- Leptozestis psarotricha (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis psoralea (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis pygaea
- Leptozestis sedula (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis selenura
- Leptozestis spodoptera (Turner, 1923)
- Leptozestis strophicodes (Meyrick, 1917)
- Leptozestis tephras (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis tephronota
- Leptozestis toreutica (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis tropaea (Meyrick, 1897)
- Leptozestis valida (Meyrick, 1919)
- Leptozestis xenonympha