Williella

Williella is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.[1]

Williella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Subfamily:
Tortricinae
Genus:
Williella

Horak, 1984

Details

The moth genus Williella, family Tortricidae, subfamily Tortricinae, was established in 1984 to accommodate two newly-described species from New Caledonia: Williella sauteri and Williella angulata.[2]

Williella was tentatively assigned to the base of the Archipini. Phylogenetic analysis of their plesiomorphic morphology suggested that Williella species are members of a group of isolated and generalized moths from Australia, New Zealand and South America.

The discovery of the genus in New Caledonia suggested that these plesiomorphic modern Tortricinae are isolated descendants of a group of very generalized Tortricinae that were distributed throughout the Gondwana supercontinent before it broke up into many of the main modern landmasses of the Southern Hemisphere.

Species

See also

References
  1. Baixeras, J.; Brown, J. W. & Gilligan, T. M. "Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae". Tortricid.net. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  2. Horak, Marianne. Williella - a new tortricine genus from New Caledonia indicating Gondwanan distribution for the family (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Volume 15, Number 4, 1984, pp. 423-433(11). doi:10.1163/187631284X00244 Publisher: BRILL


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