''Phiditia'' is a genus of
moths of the family
Phiditiidae
Phiditiidae is a family of moths. The family used to be placed as a subfamily (Phiditiinae) in the family Bombycidae.
Diversity
The family consists of 4 genera and about 25 species.
Genera
*''Phiditia'' Möschler, 1883
*''Rolepa'' Walker, 1855
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erected by
Heinrich Benno Möschler
Heinrich Benno Möschler (28 October 1831, in Herrnhut – 21 November 1888, in Kronförstchen, near Bautzen) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Möschler was a butterfly dealer and a member of the Entomological Society of S ...
in 1883.
Taxonomy
The genus was treated in the
Lymantriidae by Allan Watson, David Stephen Fletcher and I. W. B. Nye in 1980. It was later transferred to the
Apatelodidae
Apatelodidae, the American silkworm moths, is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera. They are a family within the superfamily Bombycoidea, though they have in the past been considered a subfamily of Bombycidae.
Distribution
Species are e ...
by Joël Minet in 1986. Minet designated it as the type genus for the new subfamily
Phiditiinae, which was elevated to family level in 2011.
Species
*''
Phiditia cuprea''
(Kaye, 1901)
*''
Phiditia diores''
(Cramer, 1775)
*''
Phiditia lucernaria''
(Walker, 1866)
*''
Phiditia maculosa''
Dognin, 1916
*''
Phiditia minor''
Schaus, 1924
*''
Phiditia scriptigera''
(Dognin, 1916)
References
Bombycoidea
Macrolepidoptera genera
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