Idioglossa

Idioglossa is a genus of moths of the family Batrachedridae.

Not to be confused with Idioglossia.

Idioglossa
Idioglossa argodora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Batrachedridae
Genus: Idioglossa
Walsingham, 1881
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Idiostoma Walsingham, 1882
  • Metamorpha Frey & Boll, 1878

Taxonomy

The genus was created by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham in 1881 to house the new species Idioglossa bigemma.[1] Because Lord Walsingham had created a monotypic genus at the time, the species I. bigemma is considered the type species by monotypy. The next year, in 1882, Lord Walsingham proposed to rename the taxon as Idiostoma, because he considered the name inappropriate, but by the rules of taxonomy this is considered unnecessary.[2]

The Australian entomologist Ian Francis Bell Common classified it in the subfamily Stathmopodinae of the family Oecophoridae in 1996.[3][4] It was reclassified in the subfamily Batrachedrinae of the Batrachedridae by Kazuhiro Sugisima in 2000.[4]

Species

The genus contains the following species:[1]

Ecology

Of the species of which a host plant is known, the caterpillars feed on plants of the families Costaceae, Gramineae or Commelinaceae.[5]

References
  1. Savela, Markku (9 November 2018). "Idioglossa". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  2. "Genus Idioglossa Walsingham, 1881". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  3. Common, Ian Francis Bell (1996). Nieisen, E. S.; Edwards, E. D.; Rangsi, T. V. (eds.). "Oecophoridae in Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia". Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. 4: 59−89，341-346. ISBN 0-643-05028-0.
  4. Sugisima, Kazuhiro; Arita, Yutaka (2000). "A new species of a gelechioid genus, Idioglossa Walsingham (Lepidoptera, Batrachedridae, Batrachedrinae), from Japan". Lepidoptera Science. 51 (4): 319–336. doi:10.18984/lepid.51.4_319. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  5. HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants


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