Tegeticula

Tegeticula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Prodoxidae
Genus:	Tegeticula Zeller, 1873
Synonyms
Pronuba Riley 1872 (non Thomson, 1860: preoccupied) Thelethia Dyar, 1893 Thia H.Edwards, 1888 (non Leach, 1815: preoccupied) Valentinia Coolidge 1909 (non Walsingham, 1907: preoccupied)

Tegeticula is a genus of moths of the Prodoxidae family, one of three genera known as yucca moths; they are mutualistic pollinators of various Yucca species.

Species

• Tegeticula altiplanella
• Tegeticula antithetica
• Tegeticula baccatella
• Tegeticula baja
• Tegeticula california
• Tegeticula carnerosanella
• Tegeticula cassandra
• Tegeticula corruptrix
• Tegeticula elatella
• Tegeticula intermedia
• Tegeticula maculata
• Tegeticula maderae
• Tegeticula mexicana (syn: Tegeticula treculeanella)
• Tegeticula mojavella
• Tegeticula rostratella
• Tegeticula superficiella
• Tegeticula synthetica
• Tegeticula tambasi
• Tegeticula tehuacana
• Tegeticula yuccasella

References

• Althoff, D.M., Segraves, K.A., Leebens-Mack, J., & Pellmyr, O. (2006). "Patterns of Speciation in the Yucca Moths: Parallel Species Radiations within the Tegeticula yuccasella Species Complex." Systematic Biology 55(3): 398-410. doi:10.1080/10635150600697325