Cossus

Cossus
Cossus cossus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cossidae
Genus:	Cossus Fabricius, 1793
Synonyms
Teredo Hübner, 1806 Lyonetus Rafinesque, 1815 Trypanus Rambur, 1866 Caseus Castelnau, 1840 Cassus Dyar, 1905 Cussus Milyanovsky, 1964

Cossus is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793.

Species

• Cossus afghanistana Daniel, 1953
• Cossus bohatschi Püngeler, 1898
• Cossus cossus Linnaeus, 1758
• Cossus crassicornis Fabricius, 1775
• Cossus dentilinea Druce, 1911
• Cossus hoenei Yakovlev, 2006
• Cossus horrifer Schaus, 1892
• Cossus inconspicuus Druce, 1910
• Cossus kerzhneri Yakovlev, 2011
• Cossus nina Schaus, 1911
• Cossus orientalis Gaede, 1929
• Cossus shmakovi Yakovlev, 2004
• Cossus siniaevi Yakovlev, 2004
• Cossus subocellatus Walker, 1856
• Cossus tibetanus Hua, Chou, Fang & Chen, 1990
• Cossus ziliante Stoll, 1782

Former species

• Cossus abyssinicus
  Hampson, 1910
• Cossus acronyctoides
  Moore, 1879
• Cossus aegyptiacus
  Hampson, 1910
• Cossus airani
  Daniel, 1937
• Cossus aksuensis
  Daniel, 1953
• Cossus araraticus
  Teich, 1896
• Cossus aries
  Püngeler, 1902
• Cossus badiala
  D. S. Fletcher, 1968
• Cossus balcanicus
  Lederer, 1863
• Cossus bianchii
  Krüger, 1934
• Cossus bongiovannii
  Krüger, 1939
• Cossus breviculus
  Mabille, 1880
• Cossus brunneofasciatus
  Gaede, 1929
• Cossus cadambae
  Moore, 1865
• Cossus cashmirensis
  Moore, 1879
• Cossus celebensis
  Roepke, 1957
• Cossus centerensis
  Lintner, 1877
• Cossus centrimaculatus
  Röber, 1925
• Cossus cheesmani
  Tams, 1925
• Cossus chloratus
  Swinhoe, 1892
• Cossus cinereus
  Roepke, 1957
• Cossus cirrilator
  Le Cerf, 1919
• Cossus colossus
  Staudinger, 1887
• Cossus crassilineatus
  Gaede, 1929
• Cossus crucis
  Kenrick, 1914
• Cossus divisus
  Rothschild, 1912
• Cossus eutelia
  Clench, 1959
• Cossus fanti
  Hampson, 1910
• Cossus frater
  Warnecke, 1929
• Cossus fulvosparsa
  Butler, 1882
• Cossus funkei
  Röber, 1896
• Cossus fuscibasis
  Hampson, 1895
• Cossus gaerdesi
  Daniel, 1956
• Cossus giganteus
  Schwingenschuss, 1938
• Cossus greeni
  Arora, 1976
• Cossus hunanensis
  Daniel, 1940
• Cossus hycranus
  Christoph, 1888
• Cossus incandescens
  Butler, 1875
• Cossus javanus
  Roepke, 1957
• Cossus kinabaluensis
  Gaede, 1933
• Cossus kwouus
  Karsch, 1898
• Cossus lepta
  West, 1932
• Cossus likiangi
  Daniel, 1940
• Cossus mauretanicus
  D. Lucas, 1907
• Cossus modestus
  Staudinger, 1887
• Cossus mokshanensis
  Daniel, 1949
• Cossus mongolicus
  Erschoff, 1882
• Cossus mucidus
  Edwards, 1882
• Cossus nigeriae
  Bethune-Baker, 1915
• Cossus nigromaculatus
  Hampson, 1892
• Cossus osthelderi
  Daniel, 1933
• Cossus parvipunctatus
  Hampson, 1892
• Cossus parvulus
  Kenrick, 1914
• Cossus pavidus
  Butler, 1882
• Cossus perplexus
  Neumoegen, 1893
• Cossus polygraphus
  Lower, 1893
• Cossus populi
  Walker, 1865
• Cossus pusillus
  Roepke, 1957
• Cossus rectangulatus
  Wichgraf, 1921
• Cossus reussi
  Strand, 1913
• Cossus rufidorsia
  Hampson, 1905
• Cossus saharae
  D. Lucas, 1907
• Cossus sakalava
  Viette, 1958
• Cossus sareptensis
  Rothschild, 1912
• Cossus semicurvatus
  Gaede, 1929
• Cossus seineri
  Grünberg
• Cossus senex
  Butler, 1882
• Cossus sidamo
  Rougeot, 1977
• Cossus stertzi
  Püngeler, 1900
• Cossus stigmaticus
  Moore, 1879
• Cossus striolatus
  Rothschild, 1912
• Cossus subfuscus
  Snellen, 1895
• Cossus tahamae
  Wiltshire, 1949
• Cossus tahlai
  Dumont, 1932
• Cossus tapinus
  Püngeler, 1898
• Cossus terebroides
  Felder, 1874
• Cossus toluminus
  Druce, 1887
• Cossus turati
  Krüger, 1934
• Cossus unguiculatus
  Fabricius, 1793
• Cossus verbeeki
  Roepke, 1957
• Cossus vinctus
  Walker, 1865
• Cossus windhoekensis
  Strand, 1913

Unknown status

• Cossus florita Druce

References

• Daniel, F., 1937: Zwei neue Cossidae aus Persien. Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 27: 49-51. Full article: [1].
• Daniel, F., 1940: Die Cossidae und Hepialidae der Ausbeuten Hone. Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 30: 1004–1020. Full article: [2]
• Schoorl jr., J.W., 1990: A Phylogenetic study on Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia) based on external adult morphology. Zoologische Verhandelingen 263: 1–295. Full article: [3].
• Yakovlev, R.V., 2004: New data about Carpenter Moths of China (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Atalanta 35 (3/4): 353–356.
• Yakovlev, R.V., 2004: Carpenter-Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) of Mongolia. Euroasian Entomological Journal 3 (3): 217–224.
• Yakovlev, R.V., 2006, New Cossidae (Lepidoptera) from Asia, Africa and Macronesia, Tinea 19 (3): 188–213.
• Yakovlev, R.V., 2009: Systematic review of Goat Moth – Cossus cossus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera, Cossidae). Amurian Zoological Journal I (1): 57–71. Full article: [4].

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• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Subfamily: Cossinae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.