''Phiditia'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s 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, 185 ...
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 ...
in 1883.
Taxonomy
The genus was treated in the
Lymantriidae
The Lymantriinae (formerly called the Lymantriidae) are a subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard no ...
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 ar ...
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
Bombycoidea genera
Taxa named by Heinrich Benno Möschler
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