Family BRACHODIDAE

Brachodidae

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• Atychiidae.
• Bradyptesidae.

Introduction

[After Edwards 1996]
No modern study of the Australian Brachodidae is available. Species have been named primarily by Meyrick (1907) and Turner (1913, 1942). Heppner & Duckworth (1981) provided a review of the family with a complete listing of the world fauna. Their division of the family into two subfamilies (Brachodinae, Phycodinae) and their arrangement of the genera is followed here.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

BRACHODIDAE: Nigilgia adjectella Walker, 1863 [included by Nielsen (1996: 139) but misidentified and not an Australian species]

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Brachodidae. 139 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM.

Heppner, J.B. & Duckworth, W.D. 1981. Classification of the superfamily Sesioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 314: i-iii, 1-144

Turner, A.J. 1913. Studies in Australian Microlepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 174-228 [Date published 17 Sept. 1913]

Turner, A.J. 1942. Fragmenta lepidopterologica. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 53(1941): 61-95

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