Family CYCLOTORNIDAE
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Ebbe S. Nielsen
Introduction
(After Nielsen 1996: 149) The family was established by Meyrick (1912) and contains the single genus Cyclotorna Meyrick confined to Australia. Five species have been described and several undescribed species are known. Species occur throughout mainland Australia. The family was associated with the Zygaenoidea by Common (1970).
The remarkable larvae are parasitic on leaf hoppers and ant brood and details of their biology may be found in Dodd (1912) and Common (1990).
General References
Common, I.F.B. 1970. Lepidoptera (Moths and butterflies). 765–866, pls 7, 8 in Mackerras, I.M. (ed). Insects of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press
Common, I.F.B. 1990. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls
Dodd, F.P. 1912. Some remarkable ant-friend Lepidoptera of Queensland. With supplement by Meyrick. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911(3): 577–589, pl. 48
Meyrick, E. 1912. Supplement to F.P. Dodd's — 'Some Remarkable Ant-friend Lepidoptera of Queensland'. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911(3-4): 589–590
Nielsen, E.S. 1996. Cyclotornidae. p. 149 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