Deltophora is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was originally described from South Africa and based on a taxonomic revision contains about 20 species on all continents except Antarctica.[2] Host plants of larvae and adults are only known for two Chinese species of Deltophora.[3]

Deltophora
Deltophora sella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Anomologinae
Tribe: Anomologini
Genus: Deltophora
Janse, 1950[1]

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Former species

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References

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  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Sattler K. (1979). A taxonomic revision of the genus Deltophora Janse, 1950 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Bull Br Mus (Nat Hist), Entomol Ser 38: 263–322.
  3. ^ Luo, Shixiao; Li, Yongquan; Chen, Shi; Zhang, Dianxiang; Renner, Susanne S. (2011). "Gelechiidae Moths Are Capable of Chemically Dissolving the Pollen of Their Host Plants: First Documented Sporopollenin Breakdown by an Animal". PLOS ONE. 6 (4): e19219. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...619219L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019219. PMC 3084278. PMID 21552530.
  • Lee, S.; Hodges, R.W.; Brown, R.L. 2009: Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico. Zootaxa, 2231: 1-39. Abstract & excerpt
  • Li, Z.-D. ; H.-H. Li & S.-X. Wang, 2002: A systematic study on the genus Deltophora Janse from China (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 27 (1): 129-135.