Heterobathmioidea 2158925 224194191 2008-07-07T19:19:30Z Giancarlodessi 3669718 +[[it:Heterobathmia]] {{Taxobox | name = Heterobathmioidea | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Insect]]a | superordo = [[Amphiesmenoptera]] | ordo = [[Lepidoptera]] | subordo = [[Heterobathmiina]] | superfamilia = '''Heterobathmioidea''' (Kristensen & Nielsen, 1979) | familia = [[Heterobathmiidae]] | diversity = About 10 species | diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity | subdivision_ranks = [[Species (biology)|Species]] | subdivision = [[Heterobathmia diffusa]]<br/> [[Heterobathmia pseuderiocrania]]<br/> [[Heterobathmia valvifer]] }} The '''Heterobathmioidea''' are a superfamily of the [[Lepidoptera]], containing a single genus, ''Heterobathmia''. Primitive, day-flying, metallic moths, confined to southern South America, the adults eat the pollen of ''[[Nothofagus]]'' or [[Southern Beech]] and the larvae mine the leaves (Kristensen, 1983, 1999). Most known species are undescribed (but see Kristensen and Nielsen, 1978, 1998). ==References== *Kristensen, N. P. 1983. The ''Heterobathmia'' life history elucidated: immature stages contradict assignment to suborder Zeugloptera (Insecta, Lepidoptera). ''Zeitschrift für zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung'', '''21''': 101-124. *Kristensen, N.P. (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41-49 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York. *Kristensen, N. P. and Nielsen, E.S. (1979). A new subfamily of micropterigid moths from South America. A contribution to the morphology and phylogeny of the Micropterigidae, with a generic catalogue of the family (Lepidoptera: Zeugloptera). ''Steenstrupia'', '''5'''(7):69-147. *Kristensen, N. P. and Nielsen, E.S. (1998). ''Heterobathmia valvifer'' n.sp.: a moth with large apparent 'ovipositor valves' (Lepidoptera, Heterobathmiidae). ''Steenstrupia'', '''24''': 141-156. ==External links== *[http://tolweb.org/Heterobathmiidae Tree of Life] *[http://www.macn.secyt.gov.ar/cont_Publicaciones/Rns-Vol07-1_57-65.pdf pdf Mouthparts] *[http://www.entomology.umn.edu/museum/links/coursefiles/PDFLiterature/PHYLOGENY%20TEXT/Lepidoptera.pdf pdf Phylogeny] {{Lepidoptera}} {{wikispecies|Heterobathmioidea}} [[Category:Moths]] {{moth-stub}} [[ca:Heterobàtmid]] [[de:Heterobathmiidae]] [[it:Heterobathmia]] [[pt:Heterobathmiidae]]