Brypoctia Schoorl, 1990 : 162

Penco, Fernando C., Yakovlev, Roman V. & Witt, Thomas J., 2016, Taxonomic notes on the genera Brypoctia Schoorl, 1990 and Schreiteriana Fletcher & Nye, 1982 (Lepidoptera, Cossidae), Zootaxa 4205 (3), pp. 297-300 : 297

Brypoctia Schoorl, 1990: 162

Type species (by monotypy)— Xyleutes strigifer Dyar, 1910 .

Brypoctia was proposed to include Xyleutes strigifer Dyar, 1910 based on the unique structural characters of the head appendages and thoracic sclerites ( Schoorl 1990). As mentioned by Schoorl, “male antenna bipectinate for approx. 0.4 times its length, labial palpi slender and approx. 0.5 times length of eye-diameter, second segment of labial palpi apically slightly thickened, tegula ventroposteriorly bluntly pointed ( Schoorl 1990)”. Other characters refer to minor details of the thorax which are impossible to distinguish in field determinations and require examination using a microscope.