Meleonoma is a genus of moths in the family Autostichidae.
Taxonomic history & placement Meleonoma was established by Edward Meyrick in 1914,Meyrick, E., 1914. Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 1, part 8. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 64 pp. [pp. 225−288] who placed the genus in the family Oecophoridae. Subsequently, Clarke (1965)Clarke, J.F.G. (1965) Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 5. Trustees of the British Museum Natural History, London, 581 pp. listed the genus in the family Cosmopterigidae. Park & Park (2016)Park, K.T. & Park, Y.M. (2016) Two new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lypusidae) from Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9: 485−488 attributed the genus to Lypusidae sensu Lvovsky (2015), although shortly after, Yin & Wang (2016aYin, A.H. & Wang, S.X. (2016a) Two new species in the genus Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Taiwan. Entomotaxonomia 38 (1): 24−28. & 2016bYin, A.H. & Wang, S.X. (2016b) Taxonomic study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from Thailand (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea). ZooKeys 571: 133–141 ) placed the genus as incertae sedis within Gelechioidea and then in Oecophoridae, followed by Kitajima & Salamaki (2019)Kitajima, Y. & Sakamaki, Y. (2019) Three new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Japan. Lepidoptera Science 70 (2), 33–46. when studying the Japanese species. Furthermore, Lvovsky (2015) synonymized the genus Acryptolechia (at that time placed in Cryptolechiinae of Depressariidae) with Meleonoma. More recently, Wang & Li (2020)Wang, Q.Y. & Li, H.H. (2020) Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera), with an exploratory application on geometric morphometrics. Zoologica Scripta 49 (3): 307-328 studied the molecular phylogeny of Gelechioidea, and found Meleonoma plus Phaulolechia formed a clade constituting the tribe Meleonomini, sister to Periacma + Irepacma + Epiracma, constituting the Periacmini, bringing both tribes together to form the subfamily Periacminae, in Autostichidae.
Most recently, there has been a flurry of publications on the genus: Yin & Cai (2019)Yin, A.H. & Cai, Y.P. (2019) Two new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from China (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Xyloryctidae). ZooKeys 871: 79–87. described two new species from Guangxi and Fujian provinces, China; Wang et al. (2020)Wang, S.X., Zhu, X.J., Zhao, B.X. & Yang, X.F. (2020) Taxonomic review of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae), with a checklist of all the described species. Zootaxa 4763 (3): 371–393 reviewed the genus, retained the placement in Meleonomini (Autostichidae, Periacminae) and provided a global checklist, including transferring 50 species from the moth genus Cryptolechia; Zhu et al. (2020)Zhu. X.J., Cai. B. & Wang, S.X. (2020) Genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera, Autostichidae) from Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of sixteen new species. ZooKeys 975: 125–157. described 16 new species from Hainan Island, China; Yin et al. (2020)Yin, A.H., Zhi, Y. & Cai, Y.P. (2020) Three new species of Meleonoma Meyrick from Yunnan, China (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Xyloryctidae). ZooKeys 904: 23–33. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.904.47189 described three new species from Yunnan province, China; lastly, Wang & Zhu (2020aWang, S.X. & Xhu, X.J. (2020a) Study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China, with descriptions of fifteen new species. Zootaxa 4838 (3): 331-357 & 2020bWang, S.X. & Xhu, X.J. (2020b) Study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China, with descriptions of twenty-one new species (II). Zootaxa 4881 (2): 257–289 ) described a further 36 species from China.
Species (species groupings follow Wang et al., 2020 and Wang & Zhu (2020a & 2020b) the malacobyrsa group Meleonoma anisodonta Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma dorsoprojecta (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma lanceolata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma longaedeaga Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma lunulata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma malacobyrsa (Meyrick, 1921) Meleonoma microbyrsa (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma papillata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma robusta (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma rugulosa Wang & Zhu, 2020 the segregnatha group Meleonoma acutata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma apicispinata Wang, 2016 Meleonoma acutata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma basiprocessa Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma bicornea Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma bidigitata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma brevicula Park, 2016 Meleonoma circinans Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma compacta Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma cuneata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma flavifasciana Kitajima & Sakamaki, 2019 Meleonoma flavilineata Kitajima & Sakamaki, 2019 Meleonoma forcipata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma infundibularis (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma ledongensis Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma liui (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma longihamata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma mecobursoides Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma microdonta Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma papillisetosa Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma parallela Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma recticostata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma rostriformis (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma segregnatha Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma taeniophylla Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma tamraensis Park, 2016 Meleonoma trimaculata (Wang, 2006) the annulignatha group Meleonoma artivalva Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma annulignatha Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma bifoliolata (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma sinuicosta Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma taiwanensis Wang & Zhu, 2020 the fasciptera group Meleonoma argometra (Meyrick, 1935) Meleonoma concaviuscula (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma denticulata (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma falsitorophanes (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma kangxianensis (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma latifascia (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma muscosa (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma neargometra (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma proximideflecta (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma solifasciaria (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma spinifera (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma stictifascia (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma zeloxantha (Meyrick, 1934) the jigongshanica group Meleonoma cornutivalvata (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma jigongshanica (Wang, 2003) the dentivalvata group Meleonoma anthaedeaga (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma deflecta (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma falsivespertina (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma fascirupta (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma furcellata (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma gei (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma luniformis (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma menglana (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma paranthaedeaga (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma proximihamatilis (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma rectimarginalis (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma similifloralis (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma torophanes (Meyrick, 1935) Meleonoma varifascirupta (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma zhengi (Wang, 2003) the facialis group Meleonoma anticentra (Meyrick, 1910) Meleonoma aridula (Meyrick, 1910) Meleonoma bilobata Wang, 2016 Meleonoma catenata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma dierli Lvovsky, 2015 Meleonoma dilativalva Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma dorsibacilliformis Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma dorsolobulata Wang, 2016 Meleonoma echinata Li, 2004 Meleonoma elongata Wang, 2016 Meleonoma facialis Li & Wang, 2002 Meleonoma facunda (Meyrick, 1910) Meleonoma fasciculifera (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma foliata Li, 2004 Meleonoma heterota Meyrick, 1914 Meleonoma japonica Kitajima et Sakamaki, 2019 Meleonoma jubingella Lvovsky, 2015 Meleonoma longiprocessa Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma malacognatha Li, 2002 Meleonoma margisclerotica Wang, 2016 Meleonoma meyricki Lvovsky, 2015 Meleonoma montana Lvovsky, 2015 Meleonoma nepalella Lvovsky, 2015 Meleonoma nephospora Meyrick, 1930 Meleonoma parvissima Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma petrota Meyrick, 1914 Meleonoma polychaeta Li, 2004 Meleonoma stomota (Meyrick, 1910) Meleonoma tianmushana Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma tenuiuncata Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma triacantha Wang & Zhu, 2020 Meleonoma triangula Wang, 2016 Meleonoma ventrospinosa Wang & Zhu, 2020 the acutiuscula group Meleonoma acutiuscula (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma fustiformis (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma mirabilis (Wang, 2003) Meleonoma olivaria (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma peditata (Wang, 2006)
Species awaiting assignment to existing or as yet undefined groups Meleonoma bifida (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma concolora (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma flavimaculata (Christoph, 1882) Meleonoma foliiformis Yin, 2019 Meleonoma hamatilis (Wang, 2004) Meleonoma implexa Meyrick, 1918 Meleonoma leishana (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma pardalias Meyrick, 1931 Meleonoma projecta Yin, 2019 Meleonoma sticta (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma vespertina (Meyrick, 1910) Meleonoma wenxianica (Wang, 2006) Meleonoma apicicurvata Wang, 2020 Meleonoma apicirectangula Wang, 2020 Meleonoma bicuspidata Wang, 2020 Meleonoma bidentata Wang, 2020 Meleonoma conica Wang, 2020 Meleonoma hainanensis Wang, 2020 Meleonoma latiunca Wang, 2020 Meleonoma linearis Wang, 2020 Meleonoma magnidentata Wang, 2020 Meleonoma ornithorrhyncha Wang, 2020 Meleonoma parilis Wang, 2020 Meleonoma pectinalis Wang, 2020 Meleonoma puncticulata Wang, 2020 Meleonoma quadritaeniata Wang, 2020 Meleonoma robustispina Wang, 2020 Meleonoma rostellata Wang, 2020 Meleonoma plicata Yin, Zhi & Cai, 2020 Meleonoma scalprata Yin, Zhi & Cai, 2020 Meleonoma taeniata Yin, Zhi & Cai, 2020
Species incertae sedis sensu Wang et al., 2020, i.e. current placement to genus is uncertain and may be revised Meleonoma capnodyta (Meyrick, 1906) Meleonoma crocomitra (Meyrick, 1914) Meleonoma diehlella Viette, 1955 Meleonoma impulsa Meyrick, 1934 Meleonoma psammota Meyrick, 1915
Former species Meleonoma basanista Meyrick, 1922, a junior synonym of Meioglossa pentochra (Lower, 1894)
References
Bibliography Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Park & Park, 2016. Two new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lypusidae) from Korea.