Biology:Prodidactis
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Short description: Genus of moths
| Prodidactis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick, 1918)
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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
- ↑ "Apoditrysia". Tree of Life Web Project. http://www.tolweb.org/Apoditrysia.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Prodidactis mystica". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=76226.
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