Prodidactis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]