Dactylethrella
Dactylethrella is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. The genus was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940 and is a replacement name for Dactylethra Meyrick, 1906.
Taxonomy
The type species of both aforementioned genera is Dactylethra tetroctas Meyrick, 1906 from Sri Lanka, later a junior subjective synonym of Dactylethrella candida.Species
The species of this genus are:- Dactylethrella bryophilella – Gambia
- Dactylethrella candida – Sri Lanka
- Dactylethrella chionitis – South Africa
- Dactylethrella globulata – Sri Lanka
- Dactylethrella incondita – Sri Lanka
- Dactylethrella leuconota Bidzilya & Mey, 2011 – Namibia
- Dactylethrella siccifolii – South Africa
- Dactylethrella tetrametra – South Africa
- Dactylethrella catarina Pnomarenko – China
- Dactylethrella shenae Li & Zheng, 1998 – China
- Dactylethrella tegulifera – China