Musotiminae

Landry, Bernard & Roque-Albelo, Lazaro, 2006, The Acentropinae and Musotiminae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Zootaxa 1354, pp. 45-56 : 47

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Musotiminae

The world fauna of this small subfamily of delicate moths includes some 166 species ( Heppner 1991) distributed in the New World from the southern United States to Argentina, and in the Old World Tropics to South Africa, Siberia, Japan, New Zealand, Micronesia, and Samoa ( Munroe and Solis 1998). The New World fauna includes 82 species in nine genera ( Munroe 1995; Phillips and Solis 1996; Solis et al. 2005). The larvae feed on ferns, including Cyathea ( Phillips and Solis 1996) .

References

Heppner, J. B. (1991) Faunal regions and the diversity of Lepidoptera. Tropical Lepidoptera, 2, 1 - 85.

Munroe, E. G. (1995) Nymphulinae. pp. 48 - 51. In: Heppner, J. B. (Ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera, Volume 3. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera and Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, liv + 243 pp.

Munroe, E. G. & Solis, M. A. (1998) 14. The Pyraloidea. pp. 232 - 256. In: Kristensen, N. P. (Ed.), Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies. Vol. 1: Evolution, systematics, and biogeography. In: Fischer, M. (ed.), Handbook of zoology. Vol. IV. Arthropoda, Insecta. Part 35. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York, x + 491 pp.

Phillips R. E. & Solis, M. A. (1996) Neurophyseta (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) de Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 693 - 717.

Solis, M. A., Davis D. R. & Nishida, K. (2005) Life history and systematics of Albusambia elaphoglossumae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae): A new genus and species of musotimine with leaf-mining biology from Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 53, 487 - 501.