Oecia is a monotypic moth genus first described by Lord Walsingham in 1897. It is in the family Autostichidae. Its only species, Oecia oecophila, described by Otto Staudinger in 1876, is widely distributed in the West Indies, Central America and South America, southern Europe, Japan, northern and southern Africa, Malaya, Java, Indonesia, Australia and Hawaii. It has been widely dispersed by commerce.

Oecia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Subfamily: Holcopogoninae
Genus: Oecia
Walsingham, 1897
Species:
O. oecophila
Binomial name
Oecia oecophila
Synonyms
  • Macroceras Staudinger, 1876
  • Macroceras oecophila Staudinger, 1876
  • Oecia maculata Walsingham, 1897
  • Apatema husadeli Rebel, 1910

The wingspan is about 10 mm for males and 13 mm for females.

The larvae are coprophagous and detritophagous.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Nasu, Yoshitsugu; Sakamaki, Yositaka; Tomioka, Yasuhiro (2016). "Immature stages of Oecia oecophila (Staudinger, 1876) (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Schistonoeidae), with notes on biology and phylogenetic relationships of the family". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 9 (2): 208–211. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2016.03.016.
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