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Axia
=Timia Boisduval, 1828
=Cimelia Lederer, 1853
=Epicimelia Korb, 1900
- Axia margarita (Hübner 1813)
- Axia napoleona Schawerda 1926
- Axia nesiota Reisser 1962
- Axia olga (Staudinger, 1899) European Gold Moth
- Axia theresiae (Korb, 1899)
- Axia vaulogeri Staudinger, 1892
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Axia or the "Gold Moths" is a genus of moths whose precise relationships within the Macrolepidoptera[1] are currently uncertain, but they currently represent a superfamily whose nearest relatives include the butterflies, Calliduloidea, Drepanoidea, Geometroidea, Bombycoidea, Mimallonoidea and Lasiocampoidea, and the Noctuoidea. Uniquely, they have a pair of pocket-like organs on the seventh abdominal spiracle of the adult moth (Minet, 1999) which are only possibly sound receptive organs (Minet and Surlykke, 2003). They are quite large and brightly coloured moths that occur only in Southern Europe and feed on species of Euphorbia. Sometimes they are attracted to light (Minet, 1999).
- Note that there is a second family Axiidae in the Crustacea (see Axius). The name Axiidae is therefore likely to be invalid[2].
[edit] References
- Minet, J. (1999). The Axioidea and Calliduloidea. Pp. 257-261 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.
- Minet, J. and Surlykke, A. (2003). Chapter 11, pp. 289-323. Auditory and sound producing organs. In: Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.), Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies. Volume 2: Morphology and Physiology. 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 365. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. 576 pp.
[edit] Sources
- de Freina, J.J. and Witt, T.J, (1987) Die Bombyces und Sphinges der Westpalearktis.; ISBN 3-926285-00-1
- Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002
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