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.
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Scientific classification 
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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
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| Binomial name | |
| Oecia oecophila (Staudinger, 1876)[1]
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The wingspan is about 10 mm for males and 13 mm for females.
The larvae are coprophagous and detritophagous.[2]
References
edit- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ 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.
External links
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- Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1978). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 9 Microlepidoptera. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7338.
- Japanese Moths
- Images representing Oecia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life