Crassuncus is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Taxonomy The genus was erected by C. Gibeaux in 1994 and is currently assigned to tribe Oidaematophorini. Several of its species were originally described in genus Pterophorus.
Distribution The genus has an Afrotropical distribution, with species recorded from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa and on Madagascar.
Species , the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following species for genus Crassuncus: Crassuncus colubratus (Meyrick, 1909) Crassuncus defectus (Bigot & Luquet, 1991) Crassuncus ecstaticus (Meyrick, 1932) Crassuncus ermakovae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2017 Crassuncus hawkingi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2016 Crassuncus kenzo Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2017 Crassuncus koperbergi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2016 Crassuncus livingstoni Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2014 Crassuncus orophilus Gibeaux, 1994 Crassuncus pacifica (Meyrick, 1911) Crassuncus pseudolaudatus (Gibeaux, 1992) Crassuncus timidus (Meyrick, 1908) Crassuncus tripunctatus (Walsingham, 1881)
References
Kovtunovich, Ustejuzhanin & Murphy, 2014.Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Zootaxa 3847 (4): 451–494 (11 Aug. 2014)(abstract)