Family ARGYRESTHIIDAE
Introduction
[After Edwards 1996: 52]
This small family is represented in Australia by a single species. The family is best represented in the Holarctic and the larvae are typically miners or borers, frequently in conifers. The family should probably be treated as a subfamily of the Yponomeutidae (Kyrki 1990).
Genitalia and wing-venation of the Australian species are shown in Common (1990). Khan et al. (1989) provide a bibliography for the genus Argyresthia Hübner and Friese (1960, 1969) offers a particularly comprehensive account of the Palaearctic fauna.
General References
Common, I.F.B. 1990. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls
Edwards, E.D. 1996. Argyresthiidae. p. 52 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM
Friese, G. 1960. Revision der palaearktischen Yponomeutidae undter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Genitalien. Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 10: 1-131
Friese, G. 1969. Beiträge zur Insekten-Fauna der DDR: Lepidoptera - Argyresthiidae. Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 19: 693-792
Khan, M.A., Plate, H.-P. & Köllner, V. 1989. A comprehensive biobliography of the genus Argyresthia Hübner, 1825 Argyresthiidae; Lepidoptera. Mitteilungen aus der Biologischen Bundesanstalt für Land-und Forstwirtschaft 256: 1-41
Kyrki, J. 1990. Tentative reclassification of the holarctic Yponomeutoidea (Lepidoptera). Nota Lepidopterologica 13: 28-42