title: Alophia (moth)
text: # Alophia (moth)
  
  Alophia is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1893. Its single species, Alophia combustella, was described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1852. It is found in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, North Macedonia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and southern Russia.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  The genus is sometimes listed as a subgenus of Oncocera.
  
  