- Cecidosidae
Taxobox
name = Incurvariidae
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
superordo =Amphiesmenoptera
ordo =Lepidoptera
subordo =Glossata
cohort =Myoglossata
subcohort =Neolepidoptera
infraordo =Heteroneura
superfamilia =Incurvarioidea
familia = Cecidosidae
diversity = About 8 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks =Genus
subdivision = "Cecidoses " "Dicranoses " "Eucecidoses " "Oliera " "Ptisanora " "Scyrothis " "Xanadoses "Cecidosidae is a little known family of primitive
monotrysia n moths in the orderLepidoptera which have a piercing ovipositor used for laying eggs in plant tissue in which they inducegalls , or they mine in bark (Davis, 1999; Hoare and Dugdale, 2003). Two species occur inSouth Africa , five species inSouth America (Parra, 1998) and "Xanadoses nielseni" was recently described fromNew Zealand (Hoare and Dugdale, 2003). Some minuteparasitoid wasps are known (Burks "et al"., 2005).References
*Burks, R.A. Gibson, G.A.P. and La Salle, J. (2005). Nomenclatural changes in Neotropical Eulophidae, Eupelmidae and Torymidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) relating to parasitoids of "Cecidoses eremita" (Lepidoptera: Cecidosidae). "Zootaxa", 1082: 45-55. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z01082p055f.pdf pdf] .
*Davis, D.R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Ch. 6, pp. 65-90 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.
*Hoare, R.J.B. and Dugdale, J.S. (2003). Description of the New Zealand incurvarioid "Xanadoses nielseni", gen. nov., sp. nov. and placement in Cecidosidae (Lepidoptera). "Invertebrate Systematics", 17(1): 47-57.
*Parra, L.E. (1998). A redescription of "Cecidoses argentinana" (Cecidosidae) and its early stages, with comments on its taxonomic position. "Nota Lepidopterologica", 21(3): 206-214.External links
* [http://tolweb.org/Cecidosidae Tree of Life]
* [http://www.hayawani.de/systematik.Cecidosidae_73956.html Hayawani tree]
* [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=cecidosidae&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 Available generic names from Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database]
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