Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 122 1967 Number 3590 



NEOTROPICAL MICROLEPIDOPTERA, XIII ' 



REVIEW OF GENUS LOXOTOMA 

 (LEPIDOPTERA: STENOMIDAE) 



By W. Donald Duckworth 



Associate Curator, Division of Lepidoptera 



This paper represents a part of a contiiiuing study of the moths of 

 the family Stenomidae in the Neotropical Region. The genus 

 Loxotoma Zeller as herein defined consists of two species that present 

 rather contrasting pictures when viewed in the light of previous and 

 present knowledge. One, L. elegans Zeller, is widely distributed 

 throughout the Neotropics, reasonably well represented in major 

 collections, and has been alluded to in the literature a number of 

 times since its original description; the other, L. seminigrescens 

 Meyrick, is known only from the type-locality, represented only by 



' Prepared with the aid of a National Science Foundation Grant. Previous 

 parts of this same series are: I and II, Clarke, 1962, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 113, no. 3457, pp. 373-388; III, Clarke, 1904, ibid., vol. 115, no. 3480, pp. 61-84; 

 IV, Duckworth, 1964, ibid., vol. 116, no. 3497, pp. 97-114; V, Obraztsov, 1964, 

 ibid., vol. 116, no. 3501, pp. 183-196; VI, Clarke, 1964, ibid., vol. 116, no. 3502, 

 pp. 197-204; VII, Obraztsov, 1966, ibid., vol 118, no. 3527, pp. 221-232; VIII, 

 Duckworth, 1966, ibid., vol. 118, no. 3531, pp. 391-404; IX, Obraztsov, 1966, 

 ibid., vol. 118, no. 3535, pp. 577-622; X, Duckworth, 1966, ibid., vol. 119, no. 

 3540, pp. 1-6; XI, Obraztsov, 1966, ibid., vol. 119, no. 3543, pp. 1-12; XII, 

 Duckworth, 1966, ibid., vol. 122, no. 3585, pp. 1-38. 



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