- Palaeosetidae
Taxobox
name = Palaeosetidae
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
subordo =Glossata
infraordo =Exoporia
superfamilia =Hepialoidea
familia = Palaeosetidae
diversity = 4 genera and 7 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Genera and species
subdivision =
*"Palaeoses " Turner, 1922
**"Palaeoses scholastica " Turner, 1922
*"Genustes " Issiki and Stringer, 1932
**"Genustes lutata " Issiki and Stringer, 1932
*"Ogygioses " Issiki and Stringer, 1932
**"Ogygioses caliginosa " Issiki and Stringer, 1932
**"Ogygioses eurata " Issiki and Stringer, 1932
**"Ogygioses issikii " Davis, 1995
**"Ogygioses luangensis " Kristensen, 1995
*"Osrhoes " Druce, 1900
**"Osrhoes coronta Druce, 1900Palaeosetidae or "Miniature Ghost Moths" is a family of
insects in theLepidoptera n order contained within the superfamilyHepialoidea .Taxonomy and systematics
Palaeosetidae is a primitive family of Hepialoidea with four currently recognised genera and seven species.
Distribution
One genus occurs in
Colombia ,South America ("Osrhoes") and the other three genera have anOld World distribution fromAssam toAustralia (Kristensen, 1999: 59-61; Nielsen "et al.", 2000).References
*Kristensen, N.P., (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41-62 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.
*Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) "Journal of Natural History", 34(6): 823-878. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tnah/2000/00000034/00000006/art00003 Abstract]ources
* [http://www.troplep.org/commndx.htm Common Name Index]
External links
* [http://www.tolweb.org/Palaeosetidae Tree of Life]
* [http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=IT9951231.pdf "Ogygioses"]
* [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Palaeosetidae Wikispecies]
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