Acrolophinae
Moth family containing the burrowing webworm moths
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Acrolophus species | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tineidae |
Subfamily: | Acrolophinae Busck, 1912 |
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Acrolophinae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera.[1][2] The subfamily comprises the burrowing webworm moths and tube moths and holds about 300 species in five genera, which occur in the wild only in the New World.[3] It is closely related to the family Tineidae.[4]
Genera
- Acrolophus
- Amydria
- Drastea
- Exoncotis
- Ptilopsaltis
References
- ^ van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Kaila, Lauri; Kitching, Ian J.; Kristensen, Niels P.; Lees, David C.; Minet, Joël; Mitter, Charles; Mutanen, Marko; Regier, Jerome C.; Simonsen, Thomas J.; Wahlberg, Niklas; Yen, Shen-Horn; Zahiri, Reza; et al. (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758" (PDF). Zootaxa. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. 3148: 212–221. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
- ^ Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald R.; Harrison, Terry L.; Sohn, JAE-Cheon; Cummings, Michael P.; Zwick, Andreas; Mitter, KIM T. (2015). "A molecular phylogeny and revised classification for the oldest ditrysian moth lineages (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea), with implications for ancestral feeding habits of the mega-diverse Ditrysia". Systematic Entomology. 40 (2): 409–432. doi:10.1111/syen.12110. S2CID 85287782.
- ^ Heppner, John B. (2008), "Tube Moths (Lepidoptera: Acrolophidae)", in Capinera, John L. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Entomology, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 3953–3954, doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_2584, ISBN 978-1-4020-6359-6
- ^ Deyrup, M.; Deyrup, N. D.; Eisner, M.; Eisner, T. (2005). "A Caterpillar that Eats Tortoise Shells". American Entomologist. 51 (4): 245–248. doi:10.1093/ae/51.4.245. ISSN 2155-9902.
External links
- Acrolophidae
- Tree of Life
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Extant Lepidoptera families
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Infraclass: Neoptera
- Superorder: Holometabola
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