Monotrysia
| Monotrysia | |
|---|---|
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| "Cuckoo Flower Longhorn moth"
Cauchas rufimitrella (Adelidae) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Suborder: | Glossata |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
| (unranked): | Monotrysia |
| Superfamilies | |
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Monotrysia (Borner, 1939) | |
The Monotrysia are a group of insects in the Lepidopteran order which are not currently considered to be a natural group or clade. The group contains only moths and most of these (apart from the recently discovered family Andesianidae)[1][2] are small and are relatively understudied (compared to Ditrysia) in many regions of the world. The group is so named because the female has a single genital opening for mating and laying eggs, in contrast to the bulk of the Lepidoptera (Ditrysia), which have two female reproductive openings.[3] They comprise all of the group Heteroneura but the Ditrysia.
See also
References
- ↑ Davis, D. R. (1986). A new family of monotrysian moths from austral South America (Lepidoptera: Palaephatidae), with a phylogenetic review of the Monotrysia. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 434: 1-202.
- ↑ Davis, D. R. and Gentili, P. (2003). Andesianidae, a new family of monotrysian moths (Lepidoptera: Andesianoidea) from South America. Invertebrate Systematics, 17: 15-26.Abstract
- ↑ Dugdale, J.S. (1974). Female genital classification in the classification of Lepidoptera. New Zealand Journal of Entomology, 1(2): 127-146. pdf
Further reading
- Davis D. R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Pages 65-90 in: Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Part 35. N. P. Kristensen, ed. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York.
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