Yponomeuta, Latreille, 1796

Agassiz, David J. L., 2019, The Yponomeutidae of the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea), Zootaxa 4600 (1), pp. 1-69 : 6-7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4600.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AFA62339-C2D5-47C5-80AD-CA5E75B365F5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4341463

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/22430230-FFF8-5D0B-FF5C-F969FE45FDC3

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scientific name

Yponomeuta
status

 

YPONOMEUTA Latreille, 1796 View in CoL

Yponomeuta Latreille, 1796: 146 View in CoL

Hyphantes Hübner, 1806: 2 View in CoL

Hyponomeuta Billberg, 1820: 91 View in CoL

Nygmia Hübner, 1825: 412

Ypomeneuta ; misspelling ( Eversmann 1844).

Hyponemeuta Zeller, 1846: 165

Hyponomenta View in CoL , misspelling ( Turner 1898: 201)

Teinoptila Sauber, 1902: 701 View in CoL .

Choutinea Huang, 1982: 269 View in CoL .

Ptiloteina Gershenson & Ulenberg, 1998: 90 . syn. nov.

Type species: Phalaena evonymella Linnaeus, 1758 .

This well known genus is characterised by its elongate wingshape with white or grey ground colour with rows of black dots. The hindwing of all species have a subbasal hyaline patch. The larvae are usually gregarious, feeding in a web.

The genera Teinoptila and Ptiloteina were described from Asian species within the Palaearctic Region on account of their differences from other Palaearctic species. The diversity of structure of species in the Afrotropical Region is so great that the genus Yponomeuta is retained for all the species placed in these genera, and therefore Teinoptila and Ptiloteina become synonyms. Teinoptila has had a varied history. It was described by Sauber in 1902, placed as a synonym of Yponomeuta by Meyrick (1907, 1914b), Fletcher (1928, 1929), Friese (1960) and Diakonoff (1967). Moriuti (1977) restored its generic status. This interpretation was retained by Jin et al. (2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Yponomeutidae

Loc

Yponomeuta

Agassiz, David J. L. 2019
2019
Loc

Ptiloteina

Gershenson, Z. S. & Ulenberg, S. A. 1998: 90
1998
Loc

Choutinea

Huang, J. 1982: 269
1982
Loc

Teinoptila

Sauber, C. J. A. 1902: 701
1902
Loc

Hyponomenta

Turner, A. J. 1898: 201
1898
Loc

Nygmia Hübner, 1825: 412

Hubner, J. 1825: 412
1825
Loc

Hyponomeuta

Billberg, G. J. 1820: 91
1820
Loc

Hyphantes Hübner, 1806: 2

Hubner, J. 1806: 2
1806
Loc

Yponomeuta

Latreille, P. A. 1796: 146
1796
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