Phiditia

Phiditia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Phiditiidae
Genus: Phiditia
Möschler, 1883[1]
Type species
Phalaena diores
Cramer, 1775

Phiditia is a genus of moths of the Phiditiidae family.

Taxonomy

The genus was treated in the Lymantriidae by Watson, Fletcher and Nye in 1980. It was later transferred to the Apatelodidae by Minet in 1986. Minet designated it as the type-genus for the new subfamily Phiditiinae,[2] which was elevated to family level in 2011.[3]

Selected species

References

  1. "Phiditia at funet". Nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  2. "Butterflies and Moths of the World". Nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  3. "Increased gene sampling yields robust support for higher-level clades within Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera)". Onlinelibrary.wiley.com. 2010-09-30. Retrieved 2011-10-18.


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