Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914

Yin, Aihui & Wang, Shuxia, 2016, Taxonomic study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from Thailand (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea), ZooKeys 571, pp. 133-141 : 134

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Cosmopterigidae

Genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914

Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914: 255.

Type species.

Cryptolechia stomota Meyrick, 1910, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

The genus Meleonoma is characterized by the narrow lanceolate forewing with ground color pale yellow, yellow or pale ochreous yellow; by the male genitalia with spear-shaped or slender sticklike uncus, the absent, or membranous or weakly sclerotized circular gnathos, the varied shape of the sacculus, and the elongate or triangular saccus; by the female genitalia with entirely or partly sclerotized ductus bursae, and the signum often with spines, if present.