| Higher taxa: | Crambidae (family)/ 
                
                
                Spilomelinae (subfamily)/ 
                
                
                Margaroniini (tribe)/ 
                
                
                
                Pelecyntis (genus)/ | 
                | Status: | Synonym
                , the accepted name is Omiodes | 
                | Authorship: | Meyrick, 1884 | 
                | Citation: | Pelecyntis, n. g. | 
                
                    | Taxon remarks: | Type species: Pyrausta absistalis Walker, 1859. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum 1859: 311. By monotypy. | 
                
                
                    | Publication: | Meyrick E. 1884. On the classification of the Australian Pyralidina. | 
                    | Journal: | Transactions of the entomological Society of London | 
                    | Volume: | 1884 | 
                    | Issue: |  | 
                    | Pagination: | 292 [key], 315–316 | 
                
                
                | URL: | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14715300 |