Yponomeutoidea

Yponomeutoidea
Ermine moth, Yponomeuta evonymella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Clade:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Yponomeutoidea
Families
See text
Diversity
Over 1,500 species of micromoths

Yponomeutoidea is a superfamily of ermine moths and relatives. There are about 1,800 species of Yponomeutoids worldwide, most of them known to come from temperate regions. ^[1] This superfamily is one of the earliest groups to evolve external feeding and to colonize herbs in addition to shrubs and trees. ^[1]

Families

The family composition of Yponomeutoidea has varied over time, with a 2013 study assigning eleven families: ^[2]

• Argyresthiidae
• Attevidae
• Bedelliidae
• Glyphipterigidae
• Heliodinidae
• Lyonetiidae
• Plutellidae
• Praydidae
• Scythropiidae
• Yponomeutidae
• Ypsolophidae

Etymology

The word Yponomeutoidea comes from the Ancient Greek ὑπό (ypo) meaning under and νομός (nomós) meaning food or dwelling, thus "feeding secretly, or burrow". ^[3]

References

1. Sohn, Jae-Cheon (2013). Molecular phylogenetics, biodiversity and life history evolution of Yponomeutoidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia), with a catalog and an overview of the lepidopteran fossils (PhD thesis). University of Maryland. hdl:1903/14442.
2. Sohn, Jae-Cheon (2013, January 31); Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald; Landry, Jean-Francois; Zwick, Andreas; Cummings, Michael P. (2013). "A Molecular Phylogeny for Yponomeutoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Ditrysia) and Its Implications for Classification, Biogeography and the Evolution of Host Plant Use". PLOS ONE. 8 (1) e55066. Plos. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...855066S. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055066 . PMC   3561450 . PMID   23383061.
3. Westwood, J. O. (October 1837). Loudon, John Claudius (ed.). "A series of Articles on the Insects most Injurious to Cultivators -- No. 8. The small Ermine Moth". The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement. 13: 434. Retrieved 6 August 2011.

Sources

• Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN   1-55297-612-2, 2002
• van Nieukirken et al., 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In:Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal Biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148 : 212-221.

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