Neopseustoidea
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{{Taxobox
| name = Neopseustoidea
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| superordo = [[Amphiesmenoptera]]
| ordo = [[Lepidoptera]]
| subordo = [[Glossata]]
| cohorto = [[Myoglossata]]
| subcohorto = [[Myoglossata]]
| infraordo = [[Neopseustina]] Davis & Nielsen, 1980
| superfamilia = '''Neopseustoidea'''
| familia = [[Neopseustidae]]
| diversity = About 12 species
| diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
| subdivision_ranks = [[Genus]]
| subdivision =
[[Apoplania]] Davis, 1975<br/>
[[Nematocentropus]] Hwang, 1965<br/>
*[[Archepiolus]] Mutuura, 1971<br/>
[[Neopseustis]] Meyrick, 1909<br/>
[[Synempora]] Davis and Nielsen, 1980
}}
A superfamily of day and night-flying "archaic bell moths" in the [[Lepidoptera]] order. Four genera are known. These primitive moths are restricted to South America and South east Asia and their biology is unknown (Davis 1975; Davis and Nielsen 1980, 1984; Kristensen, 1999). ''Nematocentropus'' appears to be the most primitive genus occurring in [[Assam]], [[Myanmar]] and [[Sichuan]], China, three species of ''Neopseustis'' are distributed from [[Assam]] to [[Taiwan]], whilst ''Synempora andesae'' and three species of [[Apoplania]] occur in southern South America (Kristensen, 1999: 53-54). The morphology of the [[Antenna (biology)|antennae]] has been studied in detail (Faucheux 2005ab; Faucheux et al., 2006).
==References==
*Davis, D. R. (1975). Systematics and zoogeography of the family Neopseustidae with the proposal of a new superfamily (Lepidoptera: Neopseustoidea). ''Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology'', '''210''': 1-45.
*Davis, D. R. and Nielsen, E .S. (1980). Description of a new genus and two new species of Neopseustidae from South America, with discussion of phylogeny and biological observations (Lepidoptera: Neopseustoidea). ''Steenstrupia'', '''6'''(16): 253-289.
*Davis, D. R. and Nielsen, E.S. (1984). The South American neopseustid genus ''Apoplania'' Davis: a new species, distribution records and notes on adult behaviour (Lepidoptera: Neopseustina). ''Entomologica Scandinavica'', '''15'''(4): 497-509.
*Faucheux, M.J. (2005a). Les sensilles basiconiques gaufrées à base double ou triple de l’antenne du papillon sud-américain, ''Apoplania valdiviana'' Davis et Nielsen 1984 (Lepidoptera: Neopseustidae): distribution et importance numerique. ''Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l’Ouest de la France'', '''27'''(1).
*Faucheux, M.J., (2005b). Note brève: Evolution d’un type de sensillaire antennaire dans la famille des Neopseustidae (Lepidoptera: Glossata), la sensille basiconique large et enflée. ''Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l’Ouest de la France'', '''27'''(1).
*Faucheux, M. J., Kristensen, N.P. & Yen, S.-H. (2006) The antennae of neopseustid moths: morphology and phylogenetic implications, with special reference to the sensilla (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Neopseustidae). ''Zoologischer Anzeiger'': 245: 131-142.
*Kristensen, N.P. (1999). The homoneurous Glossata. Ch. 5, pp. 51-64 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.
==Sources==
*''Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders'', edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002
==External links==
*[http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Neopseustidae&contgroup=Lepidoptera Tree of Life]
*[http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IT9961199.htm Abstract]
*[http://members.fortunecity.com/crada1/img_cont/apoplania_penai.JPG ''Apoplania penai'' Davis and Nielsen, 1984]
*[http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=Neopseustis&hl=en&sa=N&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wi ''Neopseustis meyricki'' Hering, 1925]
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