Family LYONETIIDAE
Introduction
[After Nielsen 1996: 57]
This family of small moths was usually included in the Bucculatricidae until they were excluded by Kyrki (1984, 1990) who defined the family and associated them with the Yponomeutidae.
There are no modern taxonomic accounts of the two largest subfamilies Cemiostominae and Lyonetiinae from Australia. However, the detailed revision of the Japanese fauna (Kuroko 1964) is a key reference for the study of the family. Emmet (1985) more recently reviewed the British fauna. The revision of the European Leucoptera Hübner species (Mey 1994) includes L. spartifoliella (Hübner) which has been introduced into Australia for the biological control of Scotch Broom.
The Bedelliinae include only the small genus Bedellia with about 12 species worldwide. Two species are known from Australia, including the nearly cosmopolitan B. somnulentella (Zeller) (Kuroko 1972).
General References
Emmet, A.M. 1985. Lyonetiidae. 212-239, pl. 9 in Emmet, A.M. (ed.). The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Colchester : Harley Books Vol. 2 461 pp.
Kuroko, H. 1964. Revisional studies on the family Lyonetiidae of Japan (Lepidoptera). Esakia 4: 1-61, pls 1-17
Kuroko, H. 1972. The genus Bedellia of Japan and a new species of the same genus (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae). Tinea, Tokyo 9: 238-241
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
Mey, W. 1994. Taxonomische Bearbeitung der Westpaläarktischen Arten der Gattung Leucoptera Hübner, [1825], s.l. (Lepidoptera, Lyonetiidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 41: 173-234
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |