Tiquadra
genus of insects
Tiquadra is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.
Some species are:
Tiquadra aeneonivella Walker, 1864 (from Venezuela)
Tiquadra albescens (Diakonoff, 1968) (from Philippines)
Tiquadra atomarcha Meyrick, 1917 (from Australia)
Tiquadra butyranthes Meyrick, 1931 (from Brazil)
Tiquadra circumdata (Zeller, 1877) (from Colombia, French Guyana)
Tiquadra cultrifera Meyrick, 1914 (from Ghana to Congo)
Tiquadra crocidura Meyrick, 1922 (from Brazil)
Tiquadra drapetica Meyrick, 1919 (from Brazil)
Tiquadra enstacta Meyrick, 1928 (from Andaman)
Tiquadra etiennei Viette, 1988 (from La Réunion)
Tiquadra exercitata Meyrick, 1922 (from Brazil)
Tiquadra galactura Meyrick, 1931 (from Brazil)
Tiquadra ghesquierei Gozmány, 1967 (from Congo)
Tiquadra goochii Walsingham, 1881 (South Africa, Congo, Comoros)
Tiquadra guillermeti Viette, 1988 (from La Réunion)
Tiquadra gypsatma (Meyrick, 1911) (from Seychelles)
Tiquadra halithea (Meyrick, 1927) (from Vanuatu)
Tiquadra inophora (Meyrick, 1919) (from New Guinea)
Tiquadra inscitella Walker, 1863 (from Mexico/Southern USA)
Tiquadra maculata (Meyrick, 1886) (from Tonga)
Tiquadra mallodeta Meyrick, 1924 (from Mexico)
Tiquadra nivosa (Felder, 1875)(from Brazil)
Tiquadra nubilella Amsel, 1956 (from Venezuela and Colombia)
Tiquadra nucifraga Meyrick, 1919 (from Colombia)
Tiquadra lentiginosa (Zeller, 1877) (from West Indies)
Tiquadra lichenea Walsingham, 1897 (from Central African Rep. to South Africa)
Tiquadra nivosa (Felder, 1875) (from Brazil)
Tiquadra ochreata Gozmány, 1967 (from Congo)
Tiquadra pircuniae (Zeller, 1877) (from Argentina)
Tiquadra pontifica Meyrick, 1919 (from French Guiana)
Tiquadra semiglobata Meyrick, 1922 from Peru
Tiquadra seraphinei Guillermet, 2009
Tiquadra vilis Meyrick, 1922 (from Argentina/Brazil)
References
De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Tiquadra Walker, 1863". Afromoths. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
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