Pyloetis

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

{{Taxobox

| image = Pyloetis mimosae.jpg

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Lepidoptera

| familia = Tineidae

| genus = Pyloetis

| genus_authority = Meyrick, 1907

| species = P. mimosae

| binomial = Pyloetis mimosae

| binomial_authority = (Stainton, 1859)

| synonyms =

Genus:

• Spatularia W. van Deventer, 1904

Species:

• Laverna mimosae Stainton, 1859
• Pyloetis ophionota Meyrick, 1907
• Ereunetis seminivora Walsingham, 1899
• Spatularia fuligineella Deventer, 1904

}}

Pyloetis is a moth genus, belonging to the family Tineidae.[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/tineidae/ Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629140302/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/tineidae/ |date=2008-06-29 }} It consists of only one species, Pyloetis mimosae, which is found in Asia, including Japan and Taiwan.

The wingspan is about 15 mm.[http://gaga.biodiv.tw/9702bx/174.htm gaga.biodiv.tw]

The larvae feed within seed pods of Leucaena leucocephala[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1479-8298.2007.00235.x/abstract Systematic position of Pyloetis mimosae (Stainton) (Lepidoptera: Tineidae), with redescriptions of the adults and immature stages] and Acacia nilotica.[https://books.google.com/books?id=I2JnsZGGYrYC&pg=PA39 Forest Entomology]