Checklist
Introduction
Home FES

Catalogue
of the Lepidoptera of Belgium
Cosmopterigidae

The family is represented worldwide with about 1200 species, of which many occur in Hawaii (Scoble 1992: 250).
Identification: Ford 1953, Gaedike 1967, Gozmány 1955a, 1958, Koster 1991, 2002d, Koster & Sinev 2003, Leraut 1984, Riedl 1969, 1984, Sinev 1985, Zagulyaev & Sinev 1990b.
Nomenclature according to Fauna Europaea.
Species in Belgium: 7.
WV = West-Vlaanderen LI = Limburg NA = Namur
OV = Oost-Vlaanderen BR = Brabant LG = Liège
AN = Antwerpen HA = Hainaut LX = Luxembourg
= before 1980 = 1980 – 2004 = after 2004
Species WV OV AN LI BR HA NA LG LX
Cosmopterix lienigiella Lienig & Zeller, 1846
= eximia (Haworth, 1828)
= drurella sensu auct.		            
Cosmopterix scribaiella Zeller, 1850            
Cosmopterix zieglerella (Hübner, 1810)
Limnaecia phragmitella Stainton, 1851
Pancalia leuwenhoekella (Linnaeus, 1761)
= schmidtella (Treitschke, 1833)
       
Pancalia schwarzella (Fabricius, 1798)
= latreillella Curtis, 1930		              
Sorhagenia rhamniella (Zeller, 1839)              
Comments to Willy De Prins or Chris Steeman
© Flemish Entomological Society