Family ETHMIIDAE

ethmiidae

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Introduction

[After Common in Nielsen et al. (1996: 99)].
This family has a world wide distribution, but is poorly represented in Australia by only 14 described species, all of which are referred to Ethmia Hübner. Twelve of the Australian species are endemic. The group has usually been accorded family status, but Hodges (1978) treated it as a subfamily of the Oecophoridae, and Minet (1990) as a subfamily of his greatly enlarged family Elachistidae. The Palaearctic fauna was comprehensively reviewed by Sattler (1967) and the American fauna by Powell (1973). A taxonomic revision of the Australian species was published by Powell (1985), who has also provided most of our knowledge of their ecology and host preferences (Powell 1983).

General References

Common, I.F.B. 1996. Ethmiidae. p. 99 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.

Hodges, R.W. 1978. Gelechioidea: Cosmopterigidae. In, Dominick, R.B. et al. (eds). The Moths of America North of Mexico. London : E.W. Classey Limited & R.B.D. Publications Inc. Vol. 6.1 166+x pp., 6 pls.

Minet, J. 1990. Remaniement partiel de la classification des Gelechioidea, essentiellement en fonction de caractères pré-imaginaux. Alexanor 16: 239-255

Powell, J.A. 1973. A systematic monograph of New World ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 120: i-iv, 1-302

Powell, J.A. 1983. Biology and immature stages of Australian ethmiid moths (Gelechioidea). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 20: 214-234

Powell, J.A. 1985. Taxonomy and geographical relationships of Australian ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Australian Journal of Zoology Suppl. 112: 1-58

Sattler, K. 1967. Ethmiidae. In, Amsel, H.G., Reisser, H. & Gregor, F. (eds). Microlepidoptera Palaearctica 2. Wien : Verlag Georg Fromme & Co. Vol. 2 xvi+185 pp., 106 pls.

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