Heterocrossa

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| image = Heterocrossa sanctimonea AMNZ21752 a.jpg

| image_caption =Heterocrossa sanctimonea

| taxon = Heterocrossa

| authority = Meyrick, 1882

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Heterocrossa is a genus of moths in the Carposinidae family.{{Cite Q|Q45922947|page=457}}{{Cite web |title=Heterocrossa Meyrick, 1882 - Biota of NZ |url=https://biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz/scientific-names/2f1bd3ed-ae8a-4f7f-a685-db065942fe07 |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz}} It is endemic to New Zealand.{{Cite web |date=9 April 2015 |title=Heterocrossa Meyrick, 1882 |url=https://biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz/scientific-names/2f1bd3ed-ae8a-4f7f-a685-db065942fe07 |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz}} This genus was previously regarded as a synonym of the genus Carposina. However Elwood C. Zimmerman in Insects of Hawaii (1978, p. 797) removed Heterocrossa from synonymy with Carposina.{{cite journal|last1=Zimmerman|first1=Elwood C.|title=Microlepidoptera.|journal=Insects of Hawaii|date=1978|volume=9|pages=797|hdl=10125/7338}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=13448.0|title=HETEROCROSSA - Butterflies and Moths of the World|last=Pitkin|first=Brian|last2=Jenkins|first2=Paul|website=www.nhm.ac.uk|access-date=2018-03-17}} Zimmerman argued that as the genitalia of Heterocrossa and Carposina are distinct, Heterocrossa should not be regarded as a synonym of Carposina. This was agreed with by John S. Dugdale in his annotated catalogue of New Zealand Lepidoptera.{{cite journal|last1=Dugdale|first1=J. S.|title=Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa|journal=Fauna of New Zealand|date=1988|volume=14|page=130|url=https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/26324/FNZ14Dugdale1988.pdf|access-date=17 March 2018|archive-date=27 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127012448/https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/26324/FNZ14Dugdale1988.pdf|url-status=dead}}