Palaeosetidae
| Palaeosetidae |
| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Arthropoda |
| Class: |
Insecta |
| Order: |
Lepidoptera |
| Suborder: |
Glossata |
| Infraorder: |
Exoporia |
| Superfamily: |
Hepialoidea |
| Family: |
Palaeosetidae |
| Genera and species |
- 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, 1900
|
| Diversity |
| 4 genera and 7 species |
Palaeosetidae or "Miniature Ghost Moths" is a family of insects in the Lepidopteran order contained within the superfamily Hepialoidea.
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 an Old World distribution from Assam to Australia (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.Abstract
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