Gerontha

Gerontha
Gerontha acrosthenia, Mission Beach, QLD, 20 December 2011
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Myrmecozelinae
Genus:	Gerontha Walker, 1864
Type species
Gerontha captiosella Walker, 1864

Gerontha is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.

Larvae of Gerontha have been reported boring in the dead wood of Shorea robusta A. DC., Dipterocarpaceae (Fletcher, 1933).

Species

• Gerontha acrosthenia Zagulajev, 1972
• Gerontha akahatii Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha albidicomans Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha ampliptera Ponomarenko & Park, 1996
• Gerontha borea Moriuti, 1977
• Gerontha capna Diakonoff, 1968
• Gerontha captiosella Walker, 1864 (from Sri Lanka)
• Gerontha diascopa Diakonoff, 1968
• Gerontha dolichophallica Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha dracuncula Meyrick, 1928 (= Gerontha siroii Moriuti, 1989)
• Gerontha flexura G.H. Huang, Hirowatari & M. Wang, 2006
• Gerontha hoenei Petersen, 1987
• Gerontha hyalina Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha melanopalpalis Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha monostigma Diakonoff, 1968
• Gerontha namhaensis Ponomarenko & Park, 1996
• Gerontha navapuriensis Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha nivicaput Diakonoff, 1968
• Gerontha opaca Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha rostriformis H.H. Li & Y.L. Xiao, 2009
• Gerontha rugulosa H.H. Li & Y.L. Xiao, 2009
• Gerontha siamensis Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha similihoenei H.H. Li & Y.L. Xiao, 2009
• Gerontha stheacra Zagulajev, 1972
• Gerontha sumihiroi Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha thailandiae Moriuti, 1989
• Gerontha trapezia H.H. Li & Y.L. Xiao, 2009
• Gerontha tudai Moriuti, 1989