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Eriocranioidea
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Dyseriocrania |
A superfamily of insects in the Lepidoptera order restricted to the Holarctic region, with six genera (see Davis, 1978; Mizukawa et al., 2004). These small, metallic moths are usually day-flying, emerging fairly early in the northern temperate Spring. They have a proboscis with which they drink water or sap. The larvae are leaf-miners[1] on Fagales, principally the trees birch Betula and oak Quercus but a few on Salicales and Rosales (Kristensen, 1999).
Note: there also exists a brachiopod genus Neocrania Lee & Brunton, 1986 but this has been renamed Novocrania Lee & Brunton, 2001 [2]
- Davis, D.R. (1978). A revision of the North American moths of the superfamily Eriocranioidea with the proposal of a new family, Acanthopteroctetidae (Lepidoptera). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 251: 1-131.
- 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.
- Minet, J. (2002). Proposal of an infraordinal name for the Acanthopteroctetidae (Lepidoptera). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 107 (3) 222
- Mizukawa, H., Hirowatari, T and Hashimoto, S. (2004). Biosystematic study of Issikiocrania japonicella Moriuti (Lepidoptera: Eriocraniidae), with description of immature stages. Entomological Science. 7 (4), 389-397. doi:10.1111/j.1479-8298.2004.00088.x
- Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002
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