Transfers of Some Nearctic Genera and Species of 
Glyphipterigidae (auctorum) to Oecophoridae, Copromorphidae, 
Plutellidae, and Tortricidae 1 
(Lepidoptera) 
John B. Heppner 2 
Department of Entomology and Nematotogy, I FAS, University of Florida, Gainesville 
During revisionary studies of North American Glyphipterigidae 
(auctorum) — Glyphipterigidae (Copromorphoidea) and Choreutidae 
(Sesioidea) — several genera and species assigned to this group, 
most recently by McDunnough (1939), were found to belong to other 
families. The mostly western North American species are herein 
transferred to appropriate families so the names can be properly 
assigned in the forthcoming checklist fascicle of the series, The 
Moths of America North of Mexico. Other genera associated with 
Glyphipterigidae (auctorum) will be further assigned to appropriate 
families in a world catalog of these names currently in preparation 
(Heppner, in prep.). 
In addition to the taxa noted below, Thelethia extranea (Edwards), 
also included in the glyphipterigids by Meyrick (1913) and 
McDunnough (1939), has already been placed in Tegeticula (Incur- 
variidae: Prodoxinae) by Davis (1967). 
Type specimens were examined at the following institutions and 
the curators at each are gratefully thanked for their help: Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP); British Museum (Natural His¬ 
tory), London (BMNH); Canadian National Collection, Agriculture 
Canada, Ottawa(CNC); Humboldt Universitat, Zoologisches Museum, 
Berlin (HZMB); Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 
Cambridge (MCZ); National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian 
Institution, Washington (USNM); and Naturhistorisches Museum, 
Vienna (NHMV). 
Other species in some of the transferred genera may upon further 
investigation remain in these genera and also be transferred. Species 
having lectotypes instead of holotypes have this noted below each 
name: lectotypes have been chosen and will be designated in re¬ 
visions currently in preparation except for the oecophorid species for 
which the lectotype is designated here so this will be made available 
for other workers at this time. 
In the synonymies below the sequence includes the citations for 
the original description, the type-species of the genus, designator of 
the type-species (if not by monotypy), and the included species from 
North America. Under the specific names there is the original cita¬ 
tion, type data and location of the type, followed by the original 
'Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series No. 606. 
2 MaiI address: Dept, of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Wash¬ 
ington, D.C. 20560. 
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 54:48-55. January 1978 
