Idioglossa
| Idioglossa | |
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| Idioglossa argodora | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Batrachedridae |
| Genus: | Idioglossa Walsingham, 1881 |
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Idioglossa is a genus of moths of the family Batrachedridae.
Taxonomy
[edit]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
[edit]The genus contains the following species:[1]
- Idioglossa argodora Meyrick, 1913 - southern India
- Idioglossa bigemma Walsingham, 1881
- Idioglossa bigemma ssp. bigemma - Southern Africa
- Idioglossa bigemma ssp. mascarena Bippus, 2016 - Réunion
- Idioglossa metallochrysa A.J. Turner, 1917 - northern Queensland
- Idioglossa miraculosa (Frey & Boll, 1878) - Texas
- Idioglossa polliacola Sugisima, 2000 - Japan[4]
- Idioglossa thailandica Sugisima, 2004 - Thailand
- Idioglossa triacma Meyrick, 1913 - Assam, Khasi Hills
- Idioglossa triumphalis Meyrick, 1918 - Bela Vista, Angola?
Ecology
[edit]Of the species of which a host plant is known, the caterpillars feed on plants of the families Costaceae, Gramineae or Commelinaceae.[5]
References
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- ^ a b Savela, Markku (9 November 2018). "Idioglossa". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
- ^ "Genus Idioglossa Walsingham, 1881". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants