Rolepa

Rolepa
Phiditia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Phiditiidae
Genus: Rolepa
Walker, 1855
Type species
Rolepa delineata
Walker , 1855[1]
Synonyms
  • Olenoptera Herrich-Schäffer, [1856]
  • Athrula Walker, 1862

Rolepa is a genus of moths of the Phiditiidae family.

Taxonomy

The genus was established in the Arctiidae and was placed in the Lasiocampidae by Kirby in 1892 and the Lymantriidae by Schaus in 1927. Minet transferred the genus to the Apatelodidae in 1986. In 1999 Lemaire and Minet finally transferred it to the Phiditiinae subfamily[2], which was raised to family level in 2011.[3]

Selected pecies

  • Rolepa castrona Schaus, 1920
  • Rolepa delineata Walker , 1855
  • Rolepa demerara Schaus, 1927
  • Rolepa erica Schaus, 1927
  • Rolepa fiachna Schaus, 1927
  • Rolepa innotabilis Walker, 1865
  • Rolepa lojana (Dognin, 1916)
  • Rolepa marginepicta Dognin, 1914
  • Rolepa medina (Dognin, 1916)
  • Rolepa nigrostriga Schaus, 1920
  • Rolepa sicyata (Dognin, 1901)
  • Rolepa unimoda (Dognin, 1923)

References

  1. ^ "Rolepa at funet". Nic.funet.fi. 2011-05-30. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/bombycoidea/bombycidae/rolepa/index.html. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
  2. ^ "Butterflies and Moths of the World". Nhm.ac.uk. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=25933.0. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
  3. ^ "Increased gene sampling yields robust support for higher-level clades within Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera)". Onlinelibrary.wiley.com. 2010-09-30. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00543.x/full. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
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