Biology:Douglasiidae
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Douglasiidae is a small Lepidopteran family.[1][2][3] It includes around 32 species[1] of micromoth whose adults are collectively called Douglas moths, after British lepidopterist and hemipterist John William Douglas.[4] The largest genus in the family is Tinagma.[1] They are primarily found in the Palearctic realm,[4] with some Nearctic species.[3] The adults have a 6 to 15 mm wingspan, with a reduced hindwing venation and long fringes. The larvae are leaf miners or borers, primarily in stems and petioles, belonging to Boraginaceae, Labiatae, and Rosaceae.[4]
Genera
There are three extant genera:[1]
- Klimeschia Amsel, 1938 – Palearctic
- Protonyctia Meyrick, 1932 – Ecuador
- Tinagma Zeller, 1839 (=Douglasia Stainton, 1854) – Palearctic and Nearctic
One genus is known from the fossil record:[5]
- †Tanyglossus Poinar, 2017 Cenomanian, Burmese amber, Myanmar[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Douglasiidae". Global Lepidoptera Index 1.1.24.347. 30 November 2024. https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55434/taxon/234126.
- ↑ Savela, Markku. "Douglasiidae Heinemann & Wocke, 1876". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. https://nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gracillarioidea/douglasiidae/#Douglasiidae.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Family Douglasiidae". microleps.org. http://microleps.org/Guide/Douglasiidae/.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Heppner, John B. (2004) (in en), Douglas Moths (Lepidoptera: Douglasiidae), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 720, doi:10.1007/0-306-48380-7_1289, ISBN 978-0-7923-8670-4
- ↑ "Family Douglasiidae Heinemann and Wocke 1876". Paleobiology Database. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=388302.
- ↑ Poinar, George Jr. (2019-08-09). "A new genus of moths (Lepidoptera: Gracillarioidea: Douglasiidae) in Myanmar amber". Historical Biology 31 (7): 898–902. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1402016. Bibcode: 2019HBio...31..898P.
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