Trichocirca | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Choreutidae |
Genus: |
Trichocirca Meyrick, 1920 |
Species: | T. tyrota |
Binomial name | |
Trichocirca tyrota Meyrick, 1920 |
Trichocirca is a genus of moths in the Choreutidae family, containing only one species, Trichocirca tyrota, which is known from Kenya.
Trichocirca was included in the Yponomeutidae by Fletcher in 1929. It was transferred to the Choreutidae on the advice of the late J. Kyrki of Finland.