Ashinaga

Ashinaga
	Ashinaga longimana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Ashinaga; Matsumura, 1929
Synonyms
	Aeolarcha Meyrick, 1931;

Ashinaga is a genus of moths in the family Oecophoridae.

Species

Ashinaga eophthalma (Meyrick, 1931) (previously in Aeolarcha)
Ashinaga longimana Matsumura, 1929

Taxonomy

The genus was previously assigned to its own family, Ashinagaidae. Later, it was assigned to the subfamilies Chimabachinae as well as Stathmopodinae until it was finally placed in the Oecophoridae.^[1]

References

^ The genus Ashinaga Matsumura, 1929 and its position in the classification of the gelechioid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiiformes)

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[1] The genus Ashinaga Matsumura, 1929 and its position in the classification of the gelechioid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiiformes)

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