Xylorycta
Xylorycta est genus lepidopterorum superfamiliae Gelechioideorum. Species in Africa et Australia endemicae sunt, artissime cum proteaceis consociatae, in Hakea, Lambertia, Grevillea, Leptospermo, Macadamia, Oreocalle, Persoonia, et Telopea inventae. Larvae nonnullarum specierum caules ramosque, vel etiam florales Banksiae spicas terebrant, sed plurimae intra pinacothecam sericae inter folia textam habitant.

Genus primum ab Eduardo Meyrick entomolgo idiota anno 1890 in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia divulgatum est. Hodie in familia Xyloryctidarum ponitur, sed classificationes veteriores id in subfamilia Xyloryctinarum familiae Oecophoridarum ponebant, sed investigationes recentiores monstrant Xyloryctidas familiam separatam constituere, maiores quidem cum Oecophoridis communiter habentís, sed non ex eis orientís.

Species

 X. amaloptis Lower, 1915
 X. amblygona (Turner, 1900)
 X. amphileuca Lower, 1902
 X. apheles (Turner, 1898)
 X. argentella (Walker, 1864)
 X. argyrota Lower, 1908
 X. assimilis Turner, 1900
 X. atelactis Meyrick, 1918
 X. austera (Lucas, 1898)
 X. bipunctella (Walker, 1864)
 X. calligramma (Meyrick, 1890)
 X. candescens Lower, 1896
 X. castanea (Turner, 1902)
 X. ceratospila Meyrick, 1915
 X. chionoptera Lower, 1893
 X. chrysomela Lower, 1897
 X. cirrhophragma Meyrick, 1921
 X. conistica Turner, 1917
 X. corticana (Lucas, 1901)
 X. cosmeta Turner, 1917
 X. cosmopis Meyrick, 1890
 X. cygnella (Walker, 1864)
 X. emarginata (Lucas, 1900)
 X. flavicosta (Lucas, 1894)
 X. haplochroa (Turner, 1898)
 X. heliomacula (Lower, 1894)
 X. homoleuca Lower, 1894
 X. hypatolimnas Diakonoff, 1954
 X. leucophanes Lower, 1892
 X. luteotactella (Walker, 1864)
 X. maeandria Meyrick, 1915
 X. malgassella Viette, 1956
 X. melameucae Turner, 1898
 X. melanias Lower, 1899
 X. melanula (Meyrick, 1890)
 X. micracma (Meyrick, 1890)
 X. moligera (Meyrick, 1914)
 X. molybdina Turner, 1898
 X. nivella (Walker, 1864)
 X. ophiogramma Meyrick, 1890
 X. orectis Meyrick, 1890
 X. ovata (Walsingham, 1881)
 X. parabolella (Walker, 1864)
 X. parthenistis Lower, 1902
 X. perflua Meyrick, 1914
 X. philonympha Lower, 1903
 X. placidella (Walker, 1864)
 X. polysticha Turner, 1939
 X. sigmophora Lower, 1894
 X. stereodesma Lower, 1902
 X. streptogramma (Lower, 1903)
 X. strigata (Lewin, 1805)
 X. sucina Turner, 1939
 X. synaula Meyrick, 1890
 X. tapeina Turner, 1898
 X. tignaria Meyrick, 1921
 X. viduata (Walker, 1869)

Species obsoleta
Xylorycta artigena Meyrick, 1914

Notae

Bibliographia
Common, Ian Francis Bell. 1990. Moths of Australia. Melburni" Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84326-3.
Kaila. 2004. "Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an exemplar approach." Cladistics 20: 303–40.
Zborowski et Edwards. 2007. A Guide to Australian moths. CSIRO, 1–214.

Nexus externi

De Xylorycta. Afromoths.net.
Brown, Richard, Sibyl Bucheli, et SangMi Lee. 2006. "Gelechioidea, A Global Framework."
"List of Xyloryctidae Genera." Museum Entomologicum Mississippiense.

Genera animalium

Lepidoptera Africae
Lepidoptera Australiae
Xyloryctidae
Taxa Meyrick
Taxa 1890