Schreckensteinioidea

Taxobox
name = Schreckensteinioidea

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = A bristle-legged moth, The Blackberry Skeletoniser
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
superordo = Amphiesmenoptera
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Glossata
cohort = Myoglossata
subcohort = Neolepidoptera
infraordo = Heteroneura
superfamilia = Schreckensteinioidea
familia = Schreckensteiniidae
diversity = 8 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Genus
subdivision = "Schreckensteinia" "Corsocasis"

Schreckensteinioidea is a superfamily in the insect order Lepidoptera containing a single family, Schreckensteiniidae, or "bristle-legged moths", because of the stout spines on the hindlegs. The relationships of this family within the group Apoditrysia [http://www.tolweb.org/apoditrysia] are currently uncertain. One of the species, the Blackberry Skeletonizer "Schreckensteinia festaliella", is widespread and common across Europe and has been introduced as a biological control to Hawaii, whilst three species of "Corsocasis" occur in South East Asia (Dugdale "et al.", 1999).

References

*Dugdale, J.S., Kristensen, N.P., Robinson, G.S. and Scoble, M.J. (1999). The smaller microlepidoptera grade superfamilies, Ch.13., pp. 217-232 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). "Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies". Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.

External links

* [http://www2.nrm.se/en/svenska_fjarilar/s/schreckensteinia_festaliella.html Swedish Moths]
* [http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=1610 UK moths]
* [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/list.dsml?searchPageURL=indexadv.dsml&UserID=&UserName=&SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_cardqtype=starts+with&SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_card=&Current_superfamilyqtype=starts+with&Current_superfamily=Schreckensteinioidea&Original_Authorqtype=starts+with&Original_Author=&Current_familyqtype=starts+with&Current_family=&Original_Year=&Current_subfamilyqtype=starts+with&Current_subfamily=&Current_rank_of_name=&Current_tribeqtype=starts+with&Current_tribe=&OriginalRank=&Current_genusqtype=starts+with&Current_genus=&ZooRegion=&Distrib=&Distribqtype=contains&recLimit=30&sort=SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_card Available names Lepindex]

ources

*"Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders", edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002