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Yponomeutidae Stephens 1829

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  • 1. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.

Description

Family Yponomeutidae Stephens

The world fauna of the family Yponomeutidae numbers 340 species from 30 genera and 4/5 of the generic diversity and almost half of all known species are in the Palaearctic region (Huemer & Mutanen 2015; Lewis & Sohn 2015; Cepeda 2016, 2018; Sohn 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023; Agassiz 2019, 2020; Lou et al. 2019; Na et al. 2019; Liu & Wang 2023a, 2023b; Lu et al. 2023; Ponomarenko & Beljaev 2023; Ruiz-Galvan & Sohn 2023; Ponomarenko & Sinev 2024c; Tokár et al. 2024; Tarasova & Ponomarenko 2025). The fauna of Russia includes 70 species from 15 genera, most of which, 41 species from 11 genera, inhabit the Far East (Ponomarenko 2016; Ponomarenko & Sinev 2024b, Tarasova & Ponomarenko 2025).

Notes

Published as part of Tarasova, Anastasiia A. & Ponomarenko, Margarita G., 2025, New data on Microlepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae, Adelidae, Glyphipterigidae, and Yponomeutidae) from the Far East of Russia, pp. 456-475 in Zootaxa 5715 (1) on page 458, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.40, http://zenodo.org/record/17888570

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A15E179444E967FF18F9D8B0380A55

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.40 (DOI)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313547/taxon/03A15E179444E967FF18F9D8B0380A55.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Stephens
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Yponomeutidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Yponomeutidae Stephens, 1829 sec. Tarasova & Ponomarenko, 2025

References

  • Huemer, P. & Mutanen, M. (2015) Alpha taxonomy of the genus Kessleria Nowicki, 1864, revisited in light of DNA-barcoding (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae). ZooKeys, 503, 89-133. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.503.9590
  • Lewis, J. A. & Sohn, J. C. (2015) Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea I (Argyresthiidae, Attevidae, Praydidae, Scythropiidae, and Yponomeutidae). In: Landry, B. (Ed.), World Catalogue of Insects. Vol. 12. Brill, Leiden and Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 1-253. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004264267
  • Cepeda, D. E. (2016) Nueva especie de Kessleria Nowicki, 1864 para Chile central (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) asociada a Maytenus boaria Molina (Celastraceae). Insecta Mundi, 0501, 1-6.
  • Cepeda, D. E. (2018) New genus and species of Yponomeutidae (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea) associated with Maytenus boaria Molina (Celastraceae) from Chile, with descriptions of immature stages and natural history observations. Insecta Mundi, 0647, 1-12.
  • Sohn, J. C. (2016) Review of the genus Eumonopyta (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) with descriptions of two new species. Entomological Science, 19, 155-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/ens.12188
  • Sohn, J. C. (2018) Taxonomic review of the genus Thecobathra (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae) from Taiwan. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 21, 374-379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2018.01.020
  • Sohn, J. C. (2021) A new species of Teinoptila Sauber, 1902 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) from Sri Lanka. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 14, 654-656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2021.09.003
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  • Agassiz, D. J. L. (2020) Paraswammerdamia ruthiella Steuer, 1993 a junior synonym of P. albicapitella (Scharfenberg, 1805) (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae). Entomologist's Gazette, 71 (2), 149-150. https://doi.org/10.31184/G00138894.712.1764
  • Lou, K., Li, J. & Wang, S. (2019) First report of the genus Orencostoma Moriuti (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Systematics, 44 (1), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201902
  • Na, S. M., Ponomarenko, M. G. & Bae, Y. S. (2019) Review of the genus Zelleria Stainton (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae, Yponomeutinae) in East Asia, with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 4576 (3), 559-569. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4576.3.8
  • Liu, H. & Wang, S. (2023 a) Review of the genus Saridoscelis Meyrick, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) in China, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa, 5375 (1), 128-136. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5375.1.8
  • Liu, H. & Wang, S. (2023 b) Taxonomic study of the genus Thecobathra Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) in China, with descriptions of eight new species. Zootaxa, 5325 (4), 483-508. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5325.4.2
  • Lu, Y. Y., Hsu, Y. M., Liang, J. Y. & Hsu, Y. F. (2023) A new species of Saridoscelis Meyrick, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) from Taiwan. Taiwania, 68 (4), 425-429. https://doi.org/10.6165/tai.2023.68.425
  • Ponomarenko, M. G. & Beljaev, E. A. (2023) Description of a new species of the genus Xyrosaris Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) from the Far East of Russia with notes on congeneric species. Zootaxa, 5306 (1), 135-143. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5306.1.7
  • Ruiz-Galvan, I. & Sohn, J. C. (2023) A new species of Eucalantica Busck (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae) poses potential concerns on blueberry industry in Mexico. Zootaxa, 5351 (2), 287-292. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.6
  • Ponomarenko, M. G. & Sinev, S. Yu. (2024 c) Taxonomic status of Xyrosaris melanopsamma Meyrick, 1931 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) with notes on congeneric species in East Asia. Zootaxa, 5486 (3), 338-350. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.3.2
  • Tokar, Z., Graf, F. & Huemer, P. (2024) Cedestis granadensis sp. nov., a new species from Spain (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae). Nota Lepidopterologica, 47, 81-91. https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.47.121152
  • Tarasova, A. A. & Ponomarenko, M. G. (2025) New taxonomic and faunistic data on yponomeutid moths (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) with description of a new species from the Far East of Russia. Far Eastern Entomologist, 524, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.524.1
  • Ponomarenko, M. G. (2016) Fam. Yponomeutidae. In: Beljaev, E. A. (Ed.), Annotated catalogue of the insects of Russian Far East. Vol. II. Lepidoptera. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, pp. 60-63. [in Russian]
  • Ponomarenko, M. G. & Sinev, S. Yu. (2024 b) Family Yponomeutidae. In: Sinev, S. Yu. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia. Version 2.4. Available from: https://www.zin.ru/publications/books/Lepidoptera_Russia/Catalogue_of_the_Lepidoptera_of_Russia_ver.2.4.pdf (accessed 17 June 2025)