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Leptozestis
Leptozestis sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Subfamily:	Cosmopteriginae
Genus:	Leptozestis Meyrick, 1924
Synonyms
Pogonias Lower, 1893 (preocc. Lacepéde, 1802)

Leptozestis is a genus of moths in the family Elachistidae.

Species

• Leptozestis anagrapta (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis antithetis (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis argoscia (Lower, 1904)
• Leptozestis autochroa (Meyrick, 1915)
• Leptozestis capnopora (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis cataspoda (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis charmosyna (Meyrick, 1921)
• Leptozestis chionomera
• Leptozestis crassipalpis (Turner, 1923)
• Leptozestis crebra (Meyrick, 1906)
• Leptozestis cyclonia (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis decalopha (Lower, 1904)
• Leptozestis ecstatica (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis epiphrixa (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis epochaea
• Leptozestis euryplaca (Lower, 1893)
• Leptozestis eximia (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis gnophodes (Lower, 1904)
• Leptozestis harmosta (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis hestiopa (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis melamydra
• Leptozestis melanopa (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis ochlopa (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis oxyptera
• Leptozestis parasica (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis perinephes
• Leptozestis phylactis (Meyrick, 1897) (misspelling Leptozestis plylactis)
• Leptozestis polychroa
• Leptozestis psarotricha (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis psoralea (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis sedula (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis spodoptera (Turner, 1923)
• Leptozestis strophicodes (Meyrick, 1917)
• Leptozestis tephras (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis toreutica (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis tropaea (Meyrick, 1897)
• Leptozestis valida (Meyrick, 1919)

Former species

• Leptozestis acrocyrta
• Leptozestis acromianta
• Leptozestis chalcoptila (Meyrick, 1922)
• Leptozestis fumea
• Leptozestis macrostola
• Leptozestis pygaea
• Leptozestis tephronota
• Leptozestis xenonympha

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database