''Rolepa'' 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
...
. The genus was erected by
Francis Walker in 1855.
Taxonomy
The genus was established in the
Arctiidae and was placed in the
Lasiocampidae by Kirby in 1892 and the
Lymantriidae by Schaus in 1927. Minet transferred the genus 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 ...
in 1986. In 1999 Lemaire and Minet finally transferred it to its subfamily
Phiditiinae, which was raised to family level in 2011.
Selected species
*''
Rolepa castrona''
Schaus, 1920
*''
Rolepa delineata''
Walker, 1855
*''
Rolepa demerara''
Schaus, 1927
*''
Rolepa erica''
Schaus, 1927
*''
Rolepa fiachna''
Schaus, 1927
*''
Rolepa innotabilis''
Walker, 1865
*''
Rolepa lojana''
(Dognin, 1916)
*''
Rolepa marginepicta''
Dognin, 1914
*''
Rolepa medina''
(Dognin, 1916)
*''
Rolepa nigrostriga''
Schaus, 1920
*''
Rolepa sicyata''
(Dognin, 1901)
*''
Rolepa unimoda''
(Dognin, 1923)
References
Bombycoidea
Macrolepidoptera genera
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