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Family PENTHALODIDAE Thor, 1933

Introduction

The Australian Penthalodidae are relatively well known. They have been collected and studied because of their superficial similarity to crop pests in the family Penthaleidae. The fauna was revised by Qin (1994), who reported six species, all in the genus Stereotydeus. They appear to have no economic importance. Womersey (1941) described the new species Penthalodes australicus, but this species was transferred to the family Eriorhynchidae by Qin & Halliday (1997). Unidentified species have been recorded from Australia a number of times as listed for each genus, and unidentified Penthalodidae were also reported by Kinnear & Tongway (2004), Adolphson & Kinnear (2008) and Proctor et al. (2011).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
07-May-2013 07-May-2013 MODIFIED
29-Jul-2010 29-Jul-2010 MOVED
07-May-2013 09-Jul-2010 ADDED
08-Jul-2010 MODIFIED