Eriocranioidea

Taxobox
name = Eriocraniidae

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Eriocrania semipurpurella"
name = Eriocranioidea
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
superordo = Amphiesmenoptera
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Glossata
infraordo = Dacnonypha Hinton, 1946 "sensu" Minet, 2002
superfamilia = Eriocranioidea
familia = Eriocraniidae
diversity = 24 described species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Genus
subdivision = "Dyseriocrania" "Eriocrania" "Eriocraniella" "Heringocrania" "Issikiocrania" "Neocrania"

A superfamily of insects in the Lepidoptera order restricted to the Holarctic region, with six genera (see Davis, 1978; Mizukawa "et al.", 2004). These small, metallic moths are usually day-flying, emerging fairly early in the northern temperate Spring. They have a proboscis with which they drink water or sap. The larvae are leaf-miners [http://www.leafmines.co.uk/html/eriocraniidae.htm] on Fagales, principally the trees birch Betula and oak Quercus but a few on Salicales and Rosales (Kristensen, 1999).

Note: there also exists a brachiopod genus "Neocrania" Lee & Brunton, 1986 but this has been renamed "Novocrania" Lee & Brunton, 2001 [http://www.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/151096.htm]

References

*Davis, D.R. (1978). A revision of the North American moths of the superfamily Eriocranioidea with the proposal of a new family, Acanthopteroctetidae (Lepidoptera). "Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology", 251: 1-131.
*Kristensen, N.P. (1999). The homoneurous Glossata. Ch. 5, pp. 51-64 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.
*Minet, J. (2002). Proposal of an infraordinal name for the Acanthopteroctetidae (Lepidoptera). "Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France", 107 (3) 222
*Mizukawa, H., Hirowatari, T and Hashimoto, S. (2004). Biosystematic study of "Issikiocrania japonicella" Moriuti (Lepidoptera: Eriocraniidae), with description of immature stages. "Entomological Science". 7 (4), 389-397. doi:10.1111/j.1479-8298.2004.00088.x

ources

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

External links

* [http://tolweb.org/Eriocraniidae Tree of Life]
* [http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=53 Fauna Europaea]
* [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=Eriocraniidae&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&SUBFAMILY=&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&TRIBE=&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&SUBTRIBE=&GENUSqtype=starts+with&GENUS=&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&AUTHOR=&YEARqtype=equals&YEAR=&sort=GENUS Generic Names and their Type-species]
* [http://www.leafmines.co.uk/index.htm British moth Leaf Mines]

(Lepidoptera)