Bedelliidae

Taxobox
name = Bedelliidae


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Bedellia somnulentella"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Yponomeutoidea
familia = Bedelliidae
genus = "Bedellia"
genus_authority = Stainton, 1849
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

Bedelliidae is a small family of small, narrow-winged moths; most authorities recognize just a single genus, "Bedellia", previously included in the family Lyonetiidae.

pecies

Species include:
*"Bedellia annuligera":*Recorded larval food plants: "Convolvulus arvensis", "Solanum melongena"
*"Bedellia autoconis":*Larval food plant: "Ipomoea batatas"
*"Bedellia boehmeriella":*Larval food plant: "Boehmeria grandis"
*"Bedellia enthrypta":*Larval food plant: "Porana paniculata"
*"Bedellia minor":*Larval food plant: "Ipomoea"
*"Bedellia oplismeniella":*Recorded larval food plants: "Oplismenus compositus", "Panicum torridum"
*"Bedellia orchilella":*Recorded larval food plants: "Ipomoea batatas", "Solanum melongena"
*"Bedellia psamminella"
*"Bedellia somnulentella":*Recorded larval food plants: "Betula papyrifera", "Calystegia sepium", "Convolvulus", "Ipomoea", "Salix", "Sisymbrium irio", "Solanum melongena"
*"Bedellia struthionella":*Larval food plant: "Panicum torridum"
*"Bedellia terenodes":*Larval food plant: "Ipomoea"

External Links

* [http://www.microleps.org/Guide/Bedelliidae/index.html Microleps] U.S.A. (Nearctic)
* [http://www.jpmoth.org/Bedelliidae/Bedellia_somnulentella.html Japmoth] Images of imagines , larva and pupa.