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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea)

Superfamily Adeloidea - Fairy Moths and kin

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Yucca Moths (Prodoxidae) » Prodoxinae » Bogus yucca moths (Prodoxus)

Phylogeny and life history evolution of Prodoxus yucca moths (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae)

By Pellmyr, O., M. Balcázar-Lara, D.M. Althoff, K.A. Segraves, & J. Leebens-Mack
Systematic Entomology. 31(1): 1-20, 2005

Abstract and download at Wiley Online Library here
PDF at Syracuse University here

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 16 October, 2016 - 4:01am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Yucca Moths (Prodoxidae) » Prodoxinae » Greya

Biology and systematics of Greya Busck and Tetragma, new genus (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae).

By Donald R. Davis, Olle Pellmyr & John N. Thompson
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 524: 1-74, f.251-375, 1992

Davis, Pellmyr & Thompson. 1992. Biology and systematics of Greya Busck and Tetragma, new genus (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 524: 1-74, f.251-375 (PDF)

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 21 May, 2012 - 11:41am

Systematic revision of the yucca moths in the. Tegeticula yuccasella complex (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) north of Mexico

By Olle Pelmyr
Systematic Entomology 24: 243-271 , 1999

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 May, 2013 - 1:22am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Shield Bearer Moths (Heliozelidae) » Aspilanta

Splitting the leafmining shield-bearer moth genus Antispila Hübner (Lepidoptera, Heliozelidae)...

By Erik J, van Nieukerken & Charles S. Eiseman
ZooKeys, 2020

Nieukerken, Erik J. van and Charles S. Eiseman. 2020. Splitting the leafmining shield-bearer moth genus Antispila Hübner (Lepidoptera, Heliozelidae): North American species with reduced venation placed in Aspilanta new genus, with a review of heliozelid morphology. ZooKeys 957: 105–161.

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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 11 August, 2020 - 8:35pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Shield Bearer Moths (Heliozelidae) » Antispila

Antispila oinophylla new species (Lepidoptera, Heliozelidae), a new North American grapevine leafminer invading ...

By E.J van Nieukerken, D. L. Wagner, M. Baldessari, L. Mazzon, G. Angeli, V. Girolami, C. Duso, C. Doorenweerd
ZooKeys 170: 29–77, 2012

Antispila oinophylla new species (Lepidoptera, Heliozelidae), a new North American grapevine leafminer invading Italian vineyards: taxonomy, DNA barcodes and life cycle.

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 June, 2013 - 12:11am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Shield Bearer Moths (Heliozelidae) » Antispila

Eastern North American species of Antispila (Lepidoptera: Heliozelidae) feeding on Nyssa and Cornus.

By J. D. Lafontaine
The Canadian Entomologist 105(7): 991-996, 1973

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 June, 2013 - 11:53pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Yucca Moths (Prodoxidae) » Prodoxinae

A Revision of the Moths of the Subfamily Prodoxinae

By Donald R. Davis
United States National Museum Bulletin, No. 255, 1-170, 1967

Detailed descriptions of Prodoxinae moths with images of pinned adults

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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 26 April, 2013 - 9:24am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Fairy Moths (Adelidae)

A revision of the family Adelidae of the Western Hemisphere (Lepidoptera: Adeloidea)

By Davis, D.R., & M.J. Medeiros
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 656: 1-215., 2023

Davis, D.R., & M.J. Medeiros, 2023. A revision of the family Adelidae of the Western Hemisphere (Lepidoptera: Adeloidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 656: 1-215. Book.

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 16 August, 2023 - 10:30am

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