Endromidae is a
family
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of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s. It was long considered to be a
monotypic
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family, containing just one species, the Kentish glory, ''
Endromis versicolora'', found throughout the
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
regio
The family now consists of several genera and about 30 species, all former members of the family
Bombycidae
The Bombycidae are a family of moths. The best-known species is ''Bombyx mori'' (Linnaeus) or silkworm, native to northern China and domesticated for millennia. Another well-known species is ''Bombyx mandarina'', also native to Asia.
Taxonomy
Th ...
.
Genera
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Andraca''
Walker, 1865
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Dalailama''
Staudinger, 1896
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Endromis
''Endromis'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Endromidae erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1810. Its only species, ''Endromis versicolora'', the Kentish glory, was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, ...
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Ochsenheimer, 1810
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Falcogona''
Zolotuhin, 2007
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Mirina''
Staudinger, 1892
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Mustilia
''Mustilia'' is a genus of moths of the Endromidae family. The genus was previously placed in the subfamily Prismostictinae of the Bombycidae
The Bombycidae are a family of moths. The best-known species is ''Bombyx mori'' (Linnaeus) or silkwor ...
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Walker, 1865
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Mustilizans''
J.K. Yang, 1995
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Oberthueria''
Kirby, 1892
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Prismosticta''
Butler, 1880
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Prismostictoides''
Zolotuhin & T.T. Du, 2011
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Pseudandraca''
Miyata, 1970
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Sesquiluna''
Forbes, 1955
External links
Description and picturesIncreased gene sampling yields robust support for higher-level clades within Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera)
Moth families
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