Family SCYTHRIDIDAE

scythrididae

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[After Nielsen & Edwards in Nielsen et al. (1996: 118)].
The known Australian Scythrididae were mostly described by Meyrick (1897a) in the genus Scythris Hübner. The genus Eretmocera Zeller was placed in the Heliodinidae and reviewed by Meyrick (1914d) in Genera Insectorum and Australian species were reviewed by Turner (1941b). The family in northern Europe was revised by Bengtsson (1984) and in North America by Landry (1991). Common (1990) provided a useful outline of the Australian species.

Nielsen in Nielsen et al. (1996) group the following species as unplaced to genus within Scythrididae:

Borkhausenia albipectinata Turner, 1933.

Batrachedra hypoxutha Meyrick, 1897.

Machaeretis orthosema Turner, 1940.

General References

Bengtsson, B.Å. 1984. The Scythrididae (Lepidoptera) of Northern Europe. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 13: 1-137

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

Landry, J.-F. 1991. Systematics of Nearctic Scythrididae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea): phylogeny and classification of supraspecific taxa, with a review of described species. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 160: 1-341

Meyrick, E. 1897. Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera. XVII. Elachistidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22: 297-435

Meyrick, E. 1914. Lepidoptera Heterocera Fam. Heliodinidae. Genera Insectorum 165: 1-29, pls 1-2

Nielsen, E.S. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Scythrididae. p. 118 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.

Turner, A.J. 1941. A revision of the Australian Heliodinidae (Lepidoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65: 14-27

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