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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Mandibulate Archaic Moths (Micropterigoidea) » Mandibulate Archaic Moths (Micropterigidae)

Family Micropterigidae - Mandibulate Archaic Moths

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Goldcap Moss-eater Moth - Epimartyria auricrinella Goldcap Moss-eater Moth - Epimartyria auricrinella Goldcap Moss-eater Moth - Epimartyria auricrinella Vashon BioBlitz 2013 - Epimartyria bimaculella? - Epimartyria bimaculella Goldcap Moss-eater Moth - Epimartyria auricrinella Moth - Epimartyria bimaculella Moth - Epimartyria bimaculella Epimartyria auricrinella? - Epimartyria auricrinella
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Micropterigoidea (Mandibulate Archaic Moths)
Family Micropterigidae (Mandibulate Archaic Moths)
Numbers
3 spp. in a single genus (Epimartyria) in our area, ca. 110 spp. worldwide(1)
Identification
Adults: small and often colorful, metalic sheens of bronze, purple and yellow(2)
Larvae: unlike other caterpillars, plump somewhat hexagonal in cross section, with long antennae(2)
Food
liverworts, fungal hyphae, detritus, angiosperms(2)
Remarks
most primitive extant lepidopterans; some 125 million year old specimens preserved in amber are recognizable as modern genera(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 3 May, 2012 - 1:03pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Randy Hardy
Last updated 12 May, 2012 - 10:53am

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