Phiditiidae is a
family of
moths. The family used to be placed as a subfamily (Phiditiinae) in the family
Bombycidae.
Diversity
The family consists of 4 genera and about 25 species.
Genera
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Phiditia
''Phiditia'' is a genus of moths of the family Phiditiidae erected by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1883.
Taxonomy
The genus was treated in the Lymantriidae by Allan Watson, David Stephen Fletcher and I. W. B. Nye in 1980. It was later transfer ...
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Möschler, 1883
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Rolepa
''Rolepa'' is a genus of moths of the family Phiditiidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1855.
Taxonomy
The genus was established in the Arctiidae and was placed in the Lasiocampidae by Kirby in 1892 and the Lymantriidae by Scha ...
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Walker, 1855
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Sorocaba
Sorocaba () is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Sorocaba is the eighth-largest city in the state of São Paulo. Outside the Greater São Paulo region, it ranks behind only Campinas, São José dos Campos and Ribeirão Preto. It ...
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Moore, 1882
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Tepilia
''Tepilia'' is a genus of moths of the family Phiditiidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally established in Drepanidae, but was later placed in the Lymantriidae by Schaus in 1927 and the Apatelodidae ...
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Walker, 1855
References
Bombycoidea
Moth families
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