Crassuncus

Crassuncus is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.

Taxonomy

The genus was erected by C. Gibeaux in 1994 and is currently assigned to tribe Oidaematophorini.^[1] Several of its species were originally described in genus Pterophorus.^[1]

Distribution

The genus has an Afrotropical distribution, with species recorded from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa and on Madagascar.^[1]

Species

As of version 1.1.23.125, the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following species for genus Crassuncus:^[1]

• Crassuncus colubratus (Meyrick, 1909)
• Crassuncus defectus (Bigot & Luquet, 1991)
• Crassuncus ecstaticus (Meyrick, 1932)
• Crassuncus ermakovae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2017
• Crassuncus hawkingi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2016
• Crassuncus kenzo Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2017
• Crassuncus koperbergi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2016
• Crassuncus livingstoni Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2014
• Crassuncus orophilus Gibeaux, 1994
• Crassuncus pacifica (Meyrick, 1911)
• Crassuncus pseudolaudatus (Gibeaux, 1992)
• Crassuncus timidus (Meyrick, 1908)
• Crassuncus tripunctatus (Walsingham, 1881)

References

Wikispecies has information related to Crassuncus.

• Kovtunovich, Ustejuzhanin & Murphy, 2014.Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Zootaxa 3847 (4): 451–494 (11 Aug. 2014)(abstract)