Autostichidae Le Marchand 1947
Authors/Creators
- 1. Northern Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton ,, Canada
- 2. University of Alberta Strickland Entomology Museum ,, Canada
- 3. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Canada
- 4. Calgary ,, Canada
Description
Small (10–20 mm wingspan) moths with moderately broad, rounded wings. Adults resemble oecophorids and those of many species are brightly colored. Larvae feed on dead and decaying plant and animal material.
The family Autostichidae is a diverse group, containing several subfamilies that have previously been placed in their own families or in the Elachistidae, Oecophoridae, or Blastobasinae. Th ey were united by Hodges (1999a) on the basis of genital and wing characters. Approximately 300 species are known, from all parts of the world except the Paleotropical region. Five species are known in North America, all in the subfamily Symmocinae. Two species are known from AB. Th is family has not been revised, but information on some species is available in Clarke (1941) and Powell (1992).
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576629 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF8B8A2E9F2CA426E62BFFD7FFC6AF1B (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Le Marchand
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Autostichidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Autostichidae Marchand, 1947 sec. Pohl, Anweiler, Schmidt & Kondla, 2010
References
- Clarke JFG (1941) Revision of the North American moths of the family Oecophoridae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 90: 33 - 286.
- Powell JA (1992) Recent colonization of the San Francisco Bay area, California, by exotic moths (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea, Gelechioidea, Tortricoidea, Pyraloidea). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 68: 105 - 121.