Gerontha

Gerontha
Gerontha acrosthenia, Mission Beach, QLD, 20 December 2011
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Myrmecozelinae
Genus: Gerontha
Walker, 1864
Type species
Gerontha captiosella
Walker, 1864

Gerontha is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.

Larvae of Gerontha have been reported boring in the dead wood of Shorea robusta A. DC., Dipterocarpaceae (Fletcher, 1933).

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