Family INCURVARIIDAE
Compiler and date details
28 June 2007 - E.D. (Ted) Edwards, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia
Introduction
This family reaches its greatest diversity in Australia with more than 100 species in five genera. Most of the named species were described by Meyrick (1893). Many species were reared from larvae during a study of the genus Perthida Common (Common 1969b{}), and subsequent study confirms that five genera occur in Australia. Of these only Perthida has been named but three of the four unnamed genera contain named species.
Species of Perthida are important pests of jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) and other Eucalyptus species (Wallace 1970; Mazanec 1983, 1989).
General References
Mazanec, Z. 1989. Jarrah leafminer, an insect pest of jarrah. pp. 123-131 in Dell, B. (ed.). The Jarrah Forest. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Meyrick, E. 1893. Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 7(4): 477-612 [Date published 1893: dated 1892]
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