Family BATRACHEDRIDAE
Compiler and date details
March 2012 - You Ning Su, with advice from Ted Edwards, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra
Introduction
[After Edwards in Nielsen et al. (1996: 90)].
Many Australian Batrachedridae were described by Meyrick (1897a) and a few by Turner (1923b). The genus [Batrachedra] has been placed in a variety of families (Cosmopterigidae, Momphidae, Coleophoridae) by different authors and there is still no general agreement on its position. The North American fauna was reviewed by Hodges (1966). The Australian members of the family have never been revised but Common (1990) provided a useful guide to them.
Baldizzone (1996) transfer the genus Corythangela from the family Coleophoridae to the Batrachedridae.
General References
Baldizzone, G. 1996. A taxonomic review of the Coleophoridae (Lepidoptera) of Australia. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 139: 97-144
Common, I.F.B. 1990. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls
Hodges, R.W. 1966. Review of the New World species of Batrachedra with description of three new genera (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 92: 585-651
Meyrick, E. 1897. Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera. XVII. Elachistidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22: 297-435
Turner, A.J. 1923. New Australian Microlepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 36: 51-81