Family YPONOMEUTIDAE

Yponomeutidae

© Copyright CSIRO Entomology.

Museums

Regional Maps

Introduction

[After Edwards 1996: 50]
The yponomeutoid families have been subjected to much discussion in recent years and authors are far from a consensus on the composition of the Yponomeutidae and the status of some of the groups variously considered subfamilies of the Yponomeutidae or as separate families. The familiy as constituted here is based on work by Kyrki (1983, 1984, 1990) and Minet (1986) and is similar to that adopted for the Australian fauna by Common (1990) and Nielsen & Common (1991).

World species were listed in Lepidopterorum Catalogus by Meyrick (1914b). Australian genera and species were described by Meyrick (1893) as part of what he then called Tineidae and Meyrick (1907) as part of the Plutellidae as well as by Turner (1923d) in the Hyponomeutidae. Other species were described by these authors in scattered publications.

The Australian genera and species placed in the family have never been revised and are currently only tentatively placed together. Further work will undoubtedly change our views on the family in Australia.

General References

Common, I.F.B. 1990. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls.

Kyrki, J. 1983. Adult abdominal sternum II in ditrysian tineoid superfamilies - morphology and phylogenetic significance (Lepidoptera). Annales Zoologici Fennici 49: 89-94

Kyrki, J. 1984. The Yponomeutoidea: a reassessment of the superfamily and its suprageneric groups (Lepidoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica 15: 71-84

Kyrki, J. 1990. Tentative reclassification of the holarctic Yponomeutoidea (Lepidoptera). Nota Lepidopterologica 13: 28-42

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]

Meyrick, E. 1907. Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 47-150

Meyrick, E. 1914. Hyponomeutidae, Plutellidae, Amphitheridae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 19: 1-53

Minet, J. 1986. Ébauche d'une classification moderne de l'ordre des Lépidoptères. Alexanor 14: 291-313

Nielsen, E.S. & Common, I.F.B. 1991. Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies). pp. 817-915, pls 7, 8 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. 2 vols. Carlton : Melbourne University Press xiii + vi + 1075 pp., 8 pls.

Turner, A.J. 1923. New Australian Microlepidoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 165-194

History of changes