Abaristophora Schmitz, 1927

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Abaristophora Schmitz, 1927

Type species, A. arctophila Schmitz, 1927

The treatment of Abaristophora Schmitz, 1927 and Antipodiphora Schmitz, 1939 as distinct genera was long disputed (Schmitz, 1939; Borgmeier, 1963; Brown, 1988, 1992) until Disney & Ross (1997) treated Antipodiphora as a subgenus of Abaristophora . Nakayama & Shima (2006) gave detailed information on the status of each genus and the relation to its closest relative genus Borophaga . Before this article, 12 species were known worldwide (Table 1.). The species of subgenus Abaristophora are restricted to the northern hemisphere except the undescribed species in Brown (1992) from Venezuela, while the species of the subgenus Antipodiphora seems to have an Oriental distribution.