Family OENOSANDRIDAE Miller, 1991

oenosandridae

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[adapted from Edwards, 1996]

This endemic Australian family was separated from the Notodontidae by Miller (1991) who included only Oenosandra Newman. Turner (1922) included Oenosandra Newman in the Thaumetopoeinae while including Discophlebia R. Fielder in the Notodontinae. Turner (1929) added Diceratucha Swinhoe, a genus formerly placed in the Geometridae, to the Notodontidae. Kirkakoff (1970) placed Oenosandra, Discophlebia and Diceratucha together, illustrating similar male genitalia, in the Thaumetopoeidae. Common (1990) and Nielson & Common (1991) also included these genera in the Thaumetopoeidae. Recent studies of noctuoid phylogeny using adult and larval morphology and molecular evidence have unambiguously retained Oenosandridae as a discrete lineage in the Noctuoidea (Kitching & Rawlins 1998; Lafontaine & Fibiger 2006; Zahiri et al. 2011).

Some biological information is known for Oenosandra and Discophlebia but has not been described in detail. The larvae of both feed on Eucalyptus.

General References

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

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Oenosandridae. p. 271 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.

Kitching, I.J. & Rawlins, J.E. 1998. The Noctuoidea. pp. 355-401 in Kristensen, N.P. (ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology. Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Part 35. i-x. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter Vol. 1(35).

Lafontaine, J.D. & Fibiger, M. 2006. Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). The Canadian Entomologist 138(5): 610-635

Miller, J.S. 1991. Cladistics and classification of the Notodontidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) based on larval and adult morphology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 204: 1-230

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. 1922. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Saturniadae, Bombycidae, Eupterotidae, Notodontidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 348-390 [15 Dec. 1922]

Turner, A.J. 1929. Revision of Australian Oenochromidae (Lepidoptera). I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 463-504

Zahiri, R., Kitching, I.J., Lafontaine, J.D., Mutanen, M., Kaila, L., Holloway, J.D. & Wahlberg, N. 2011. A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). Zoologica Scripta 40: 158-173

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