Hyblaeidae

Taxobox
name = Hyblaeidae


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Glossata
infraordo = Heteroneura
unranked_familia = Ditrysia
superfamilia = Hyblaeoidea
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familia = Hyblaeidae
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diversity = About 20 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Hyblaea" "Torone"

Hyblaeidae are the "teak moths", a family of insects in the Lepidopteran order. The two genera with about 18 species make up the Hyblaeoidea superfamily, which has sometimes been included in the Pyraloidea. However, the position of this family is currently uncertain within the group Obtectomera [http://www.tolweb.org/Obtectomera] . Males have a specialised "hair-pencil" on the hindleg (Dugdale et al., 1999).

The genus "Hyblaea" is distributed through the Old World tropics and "Torone", the Neotropics. Caterpillar hostplants are well known and almost exclusively the families Bignoniaceae, Verbenaceae and the related mangrove family Avicenniaceae, the mangrove family Rhizophoraceae and a very few other families [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/hostplants/list.dsml?searchPageURL=browse.dsml&Family=Hyblaeidae&Genus=&Species=&Country=&sort=Family ] .

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.

ources

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

External links

* [http://tolweb.org/Hyblaeidae Tree of Life]
* [http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/hybl/hyblaeidae.html Hyblaeidae of Australia]
* [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/hostplants/list.dsml?searchPageURL=browse.dsml&Family=Hyblaeidae&Genus=&Species=&Country=&sort=Family Natural History Museum hosts database]
* [http://www.jpmoth.org/Hyblaeidae/A3Hyblaea_constellata.jpg"Hyblaea constellata" Accessed 4 Mar 2007]
* [http://www.iptek.net.id/ind/pd_invertebrata/index.php?id=95&ch=pd_ind_invertebrata2 Caterpillar of "Hyblaea puera" Cramer Accessed 4 Mar 2007]
* [http://www.ento.csiro.au/gallery/moths/slideshow.php?set_albumName=Hyblaeidae CSIRO] Slideshow of Hyblaeidae

(Lepidoptera)