Simaethistoidea is an obscure superfamily of

pyralid The Pyraloidea (pyraloid moths or snout moths) are a moth superfamily containing about 16,000 described species worldwide, and probably at least as many more remain to be described. They are generally fairly small moths, and as such, they have be ...

-like moths with two genera, whose biology and relationships among the Ditrysiabr>
is currently unknown, namely the Australian ''Metaprotus'' (2 specie

and the China and North Indian ''Simaethistis'' (2 species) (Dugdale ''et al.'', 1999).

Genera and species

*'' Metaprotus'' Hampson, 1899 *'' Simaethistis'' Hampson, 1896

References

*Dugdale, J.S., Kristensen, N.P., Robinson, G.S. and Scoble, M.J. (1999). The smaller microlepidoptera-grade superfamilies. Ch. 13, P. 219 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York. *''Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders'', edited by Christopher O'Toole, , 2002

External links

Tree of LifeAustralian Moths OnlineSimaethistoidea at Australian Faunal Directory
Lepidoptera superfamilies Ditrysia {{Ditrysia-stub