Family HELIODINIDAE
Introduction
[After Nielsen 1996: 56]
Heliodinids are small metallic-coloured, diurnal moths which rest with the hindlegs raised. The family has been variously defined and in particular many species of the oecophorid subfamily Stathmopodinae have been associated with the Heliodinidae. Most species listed in Meyrick's (1913, 1914) treatments in Lepidopterorum Catalogus and Genera Insectorum are today placed in the Stathmopodinae. Indeed, Meyrick (1907) described the Australian species of Epicroesa Meyrick in the Plutellinae (as Plutellidae) and subsquently recorded them in the Glyphipterigidae (Meyrick 1913). Turner's (1941) revision of the Australian Heliodinidae contains only one species now regarded as a genuine heliodinid.
The family was defined by Kyrki (1984, 1990) and includes two genera in Australia Heliodines Stainton and Eicroesa Meyrick. There is no modern account of the Australian fauna. A species of Epicroesa Meyrick was recently described by Diakonoff & Arita (1979) from Japan and Emmet (1985) reviewed the single British species of Heliodines Stainton.
General References
Diakonoff, A. & Arita, Y. 1979. Three new species of the so-called Glyphipterigidae auctorum from Japan (Lepidoptera). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 54: 87-100
Emmet, A.M. 1985. Heliodinidae. 410-411, pl. 11 in Emmet, A.M. (ed.). The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Colchester : Harley Books Vol. 2 461 pp.
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. 1907. Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 47-150
Meyrick, E. 1913. Carposinidae, Heliodidinae, Glyphipterygidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 13: 1-53
Meyrick, E. 1914. Hyponomeutidae, Plutellidae, Amphitheridae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 19: 1-53
Turner, A.J. 1941. A revision of the Australian Heliodinidae (Lepidoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65: 14-27
History of changes
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