Genus Araeolepia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Print References · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Carposinoidea (Fruitworm Moths)

Family Copromorphidae (Tropical Fruitworm Moths)

Genus Araeolepia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Araeolepia Walsingham, 1881 (Tineidae) (1)

Dyar (1903) assigned it to Yponomeutidae.

Barnes & McDunnough (1917) assigned it to Plutellidae.

Busck (1922, 1925) assigned it to Glyphipterigidae.

Sohn (2016) assigned it to Copromorphidae. (2)

Explanation of Names

Generic epithet from areae or areolae meaning "wing cells or spaces between veins." (3)

Numbers

Four species: three from USA and one from Mexico: (2)

Araeolepia subfasciella Walsingham, 1881

Araeolepia leuschneri Sohn, 2016

Araeolepia ustulana Sohn, 2016

Araeolepia triangula Sohn, 2016 (Mexico)

Print References

Sohn, J.-C. 2016. Review of Araeolepia Walsingham, 1881 (Lepidoptera: Carposinoidea: Copromorphidae) with descriptions of three new species and comments on its phylogenetic position. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 109(5): 796–804 (read online). (2)

Walsingham, T. de Grey. 1881. On some North-American Tineidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1881: 303. (1)

Works Cited

1.	On some North-American Tineidae. Lord Walsingham. 1881. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1881: 301-324, Pl.35,36.

2.	Review of Araeolepia Walsingham, 1881 with descriptions of three new species and comments on its phylogenetic position. J.-C. Sohn. 2016. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 109(5): 796–804.

3.	Explanation of terms used in entomology John Bernardh Smith. 1906. Brooklyn Entomological Society.

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 24 November, 2017 - 1:33pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 30 January, 2019 - 6:20am

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