Dryadaula

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Dryadaula
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Dryadaulinae
Genus: Dryadaula
Meyrick, 1893
Type species
Dryadaula glycinopa
Meyrick, 1893
Synonyms
  • ArchimeessiaZagulajev, 1970
  • ChorocosmaMeyrick, 1893
  • ChoroplecaDurrant, 1914
  • CyaneV.T. Chambers, 1873
  • DiachalastisMeyrick, 1920
  • DitrigonophoraWalsingham, 1897
  • OpsodocaMeyrick, 1919
  • StrophalingaGozmany & Vári, 1973
  • ThermocratesMeyrick, 1936
Adults of Dryadaula species Adults of Dryadaula species.jpg
Adults of Dryadaula species

Dryadaula are a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. [1] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1893, and it belongs to the subfamily or family Dryadaulidae, according to most recent taxonomies. [2] [3]

Species

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dryadaula". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  2. Meyrick, Edward (1893). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 17: 477–612. ISSN   0370-047X via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  4. A new species of the genus Dryadaula Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Dryadaulidae) from Japan, with a redescription of D. epischista (Meyrick, 1936)

Yang, Lin-Lin; Li, Hou-Hun (1 December 2021). "The genus Dryadaula Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Tineoidea, Dryadaulidae) in China, with descriptions of four new species and a world checklist". ZooKeys (1074): 61–81. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1074.73067 . PMC   8654812 . PMID   34963753 via Pensoft.