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Family CARPOSINIDAE

Introduction

[After Common 1996]
The world species of Carposinidae were listed in Lepidopterorum Catalogus by Meyrick (1913b) and reviewed in Genera Insectorum by Meyrick (1922c). The Australian species were revised by Meyrick (1910) and oher described by Turner (1916, 1947). Common (1990) provides some biological information.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. 1990. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls

Common, I.F.B. 1996. Carposinidae. p. 152 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

Meyrick, E. 1910. Revision of Australian Tortricina. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 139-294

Meyrick, E. 1913. Carposinidae, Heliodidinae, Glyphipterygidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 13: 1-53

Meyrick, E. 1922. Lepidoptera Heterocera. Fam. Carposinidae. Genera Insectorum 179: 1-10, pl. 1

Turner, A.J. 1916. New Australian Lepidoptera of the family Tortricidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40: 498-536

Turner, A.J. 1947. Contributions to our knowledge of Australian Microlepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 57: 65-74