Acanthopteroctetidae

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Acanthopteroctetidae
Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Subordination : Glossata
Superfamily : Acanthopteroctetoidea
Family : Acanthopteroctetidae
Scientific name
Acanthopteroctetidae
Davis , 1978

The Acanthopteroctetidae are a family of butterflies (Lepidoptera). Together with the closely related treacherous moths (Eriocraniidae), with whom they are not in a sister relationship, they are the most primitive members of the suborder Glossata , but differ significantly from the even more primitive subordinates outside the Glossata. With one exception, Catapterix crimaea , which was found in the Ukraine on the Crimean peninsula , its occurrence is so far only known from western North America .

features

The moths reach a wingspan of 11 to 16 millimeters and have a slender body and very narrow wings. The forewings are patterned variably and have an iridescent shimmer in some species. Their wing scales are hollow. Just like the deer moths, the animals have no proboscis muscles. Their labial palps are shortened and have one to three limbs , the maxillary palps have five limbs. Besides the compound eyes , they have no point eyes ( ocelli ). The tibiae have no spurs on the front legs, one in the middle and four on the hind legs. In the females of Acanthopteroctetes unifascia , the genitals are converted into a piercing device with which they pierce their eggs into the leaves, in which the caterpillars later mine .

The anatomy and way of life of the caterpillars is so far only known from Acanthopteroctetes unifascia . Your head has six point eyes and is somewhat covered by the protruding prothorax . Their three pairs of thoracic legs are fully developed, besides the pusher they only have abdominal legs on the tenth segment . They live as leaf miners in plants of the genus ceanothus ( Ceanothus ). The pupation takes place in a spun to the ground between dead vegetation cocoon instead.

Systematics

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Malcolm J. Scoble: The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-19-854952-0 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Niels P. Kristensen: Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies . In: Maximilian Fischer (Ed.): Handbook of Zoology . 1st edition. tape 4 - Arthropoda: Insecta , volume 35. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015704-7 (English).

literature

  • DR Davis: 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, Washington DC 1978 ISSN  0081-0282 .

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