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Cosmopterix mimetis Meyrick, 1897

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Higher taxa: Cosmopterigidae (family)/  Cosmopteriginae (subfamily)/  Cosmopterix (genus)/ 
Status:Synonym, the accepted name is Cosmopterix attenuatella
Authorship:Meyrick, 1897
Citation:C.[osmopteryx [sic]] mimetis, n. sp.
Original genus:Cosmopterix
Publication:Meyrick E. 1897b. Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. XVII. Elachistidae.
Journal:Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
Volume:22
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Pagination:339
URL:https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3345266
Taxonomic note:

A junior subjective synonym of Cosmopteryx flavofasciata Wollaston, 1879; synonymized by E. Meyrick (1930c: 318).

Meyrick E. 1930c. Microlepidoptera of Mauritius.
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Cosmopterix mimetis Meyrick, 1897 Syntype ♂ 5 Syntypes ♂, ♀, wherabouts unknown (see S. J. Koster 2016: 127). Australia Australia, New South Wales, Newcastle, viii–ix; i–ii. Koster J. C. 2016. The genus Cosmopterix Hübner of continental Sub-Saharan Africa (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Cosmopterigidae). page 339
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