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Belongs within: Gelechioidea.
The Stathmopodinae are a group of usually very small moths that commonly rest with the hind wings raised (Nielsen & Common 1991).
Characters (from Nielsen & Common 1991): Usually very small; head smooth-scaled; wings very narrow; fore wing lacking pterostigma, R2 well before upper angle of discal cell, female with subcubital retinaculum only; hind tibiae and tarsi usually bearing whorls of stiff bristles.
<==Stathmopodinae [Stathmopodidae, Tinaegeriidae] NC91
|–Snellenia lineata NC91
|–Pseudaegeria phlogina NC91
|–Coracistis erythrocosma NC91
|–Hieromantis NC91
|–Calicotis NC91
|–Vanacela C70
`–Stathmopoda NC91
|–S. arachnophthora NC91
|–S. callichrysa NC91
|–S. cephalaea NC91
|–S. chalcotypa NC91
|–S. coracodes P27
|–S. crocophanes NC91
|–S. melanochra NC91
|–S. phlegyra L27
`–S. skelloni L27
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[C70] Common, I. F. B. 1970. Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers pp. 765–866. Melbourne University Press.
[L27] Lindsay, S. 1927. A list of the Lepidoptera of Deans Bush, Riccarton, Canterbury. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 693–696.
[NC91] Nielsen, E. S., & I. F. B. Common. 1991. Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers 2nd ed. vol. 2 pp. 817–915. Melbourne University Press: Carlton (Victoria).
[P27] Philpott, A. 1927. The maxillae in the Lepidoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 721–746.