Catalectis is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. It is a small and little-studied group, whose precise relationships remain to be discovered. C. pharetropa was once mistaken for a species of Clepticodes, and Oenoe drosoptila of the Meessiinae was also proposed as a species of Catalectis; ít may be that these are all, in fact, closely related.Clarke (1986), Robinson , Wikispecies (2006-NOV-07)
Only three species are presently contained in this genus:Robinson Catalectis flexa Bradley, 1957 Catalectis pharetropa Meyrick, 1920 (= C. clasmatica) Catalectis ptilozona Meyrick, 1923
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(1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 416: 1-485. PDF fulltext (214 MB!) : Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2011-DEC-22.