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Blastobasis vittata

Blastobasis vittata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Blastobasidae
Genus: Blastobasis
Species: B. vittata
Binomial name
Blastobasis vittata
(Wollaston, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Laverna vittata Wollaston, 1858
  • Blastobasis lignea Walsingham, 1894
  • Blastobasis flavescentella Rebel, 1940

Blastobasis vittata is a moth of the family Blastobasidae. It was thought to be endemic to Madeira but is now known to inhabit the Netherlands, France, the Channel Islands,England and Northern Ireland.

The name Blastobasis lignea was for a time used for records now identified as Blastobasis adustella. Karsholt & Sinev's taxonomic revision in 2004 reclassified Walsingham's original B. lignea specimen as B. vittata, making lignea properly the junior synonym of vittata. B. adustella was originally described by Walshingham as a variety of B. lignea.



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