Biology:Prodidactis

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Short description: Genus of moths

Prodidactis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Clade: Apoditrysia
Clade: Obtectomera
Superfamily: Hyblaeoidea
Family: Prodidactidae
Epstein & Brown, 2003
Genus: Prodidactis
Meyrick, 1921
Species:
P. mystica
Binomial name
Prodidactis mystica
(Meyrick, 1918)

Prodidactis mystica is an enigmatic Pyraloidea-like moth from southern Africa which has been placed in its own family, Prodidactidae and which belongs in the lepidopteran group Apoditrysia.[1] Its closest relative amongst this large group of Lepidoptera is uncertain,[2] but morphological and molecular evidence suggests placement of Prodidactidae in Hyblaeoidea.[3] The larval food plant is Nuxia congesta (Stilbaceae).[4]

References

  1. "Apoditrysia". Tree of Life Web Project. http://www.tolweb.org/Apoditrysia. 
  2. van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Lauri Kaila; Ian J. Kitching; Niels P. Kristensen; David C. Lees; Joël Minet; Charles Mitter; Marko Mutanen et al. (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang. ed. "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758". Zootaxa. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness 3148: 212–221. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf. 
  3. Kaila, Lauri; Epstein, Marc E.; Heikkilä, Maria; Mutanen, Marko (2013). "The assignment of Prodidactidae to Hyblaeoidea, with remarks on Thyridoidea (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa 3682 (3): 485–494. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3682.3.9. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25243303. 
  4. Marc E. Epstein & John W. Brown (2003). "Early stages of the enigmatic Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick) with comments on its new family assignment (Lepidoptera: Prodidactidae)". Zootaxa 247: 1–16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.247.1.1. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2003f/z00247f.pdf. 

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