The
family Endromidae
Endromidae is a family of moths. It was long considered to be a monotypic family, containing just one species, the Kentish glory, '' Endromis versicolora'', found throughout the Palaearctic regio The family now consists of several genera and abou ...
comprises just one species, which is a scarce resident in Scotland:
Kentish glory
* ''
Endromis versicolora
''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 Natura ...
'', Kentish glory — eastern
Scotland (Nationally Scarce A) (formerly local in parts of
England and
Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire ( cy, Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south-east of Wales. The name derives from the historic county of the same name; the modern county covers the eastern three-fifths of the historic county. The largest town is Abergavenny, with ...
)
See also
*
List of moths of Great Britain (overview)
**Family lists:
Hepialidae,
Cossidae,
Zygaenidae,
Limacodidae,
Sesiidae,
Lasiocampidae,
Saturniidae, Endromidae,
Drepanidae,
Thyatiridae,
Geometridae,
Sphingidae,
Notodontidae,
Thaumetopoeidae,
Lymantriidae,
Arctiidae,
Ctenuchidae
The Ctenuchina are a subtribe of moths in the family Erebidae.
Taxonomy
The Ctenuchina were previously classified as the subfamily Ctenuchinae of the family Arctiidae. That subfamily contained three tribes: Ctenuchini, Euchromiini (wasp moths) ...
,
Nolidae,
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f ...
and
Micromoths
References
* Waring, Paul, Martin Townsend and Richard Lewington (2003) ''Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland''. British Wildlife Publishing, Hook, UK. {{ISBN, 0-9531399-1-3.
Moths
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 ...
Britain
