Family CHOREUTIDAE
- Simaethidae.
- Hemerophilidae.
Introduction
[After Nielsen & Edwards 1996]
The family as constituted here follows Heppner & Duckworth (1981). The world species were included in the Glyphipterigidae in Genera Insectorum by Merick (1914c) as were the Palaearctic species in Diakonoff (1986). Australian species were described in Meyrick (1907) and in scattered papers by Meyrick, Turner and Lower usually in the families Glyphipterigdae or Plutellidae. Dugdale (1979) described Asterivora Dugdale from New Zealand and included some alpine Australian species.
The family is small in Australia and of diverse origins. Asterivora Dugdale contains species from alpine southern Australia while Saptha Walker, Choreutis Hübner and Brenthia Clemens contain a few species from tropical and subtropical rainforests.
General References
Diakonoff, A. 1986. Glyphipterigidae auctorum sensu lato (Glyphipterigidae sensu Meyrick, 1913). In, Amsel, H.G., Reisser, H. & Gregor, F. (eds). Microlepidoptera Palaearctica 7. Karlsruhe : G. Braun Vol. 7 xx+436 pp., 175 pls
Dugdale, J.S. 1979. A new generic name for the New Zealand species previously assigned to Simaethis auctorum (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae), with description of a new species. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 6: 461-466
Heppner, J.B. & Duckworth, W.D. 1981. Classification of the superfamily Sesioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 314: i-iii, 1-144
Meyrick, E. 1907. Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 47-150
Meyrick, E. 1914. Lepidoptera Heterocera Fam. Glyphipterygidae. Genera Insectorum 164: 1-39, pls 1-2
Nielsen, E.S & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Choreutidae. 142 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