Family DOUGLASIIDAE
Compiler and date details
February 2012 - Data added by Robyn Meir with advice from Ted Edwards, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences
1996 - Names and Introduction taken from Nielsen et al. (1996)
Introduction
Only a single species of this small family is known from Australia. Tinagma leucanthes Meyrick was described from specimens collected at Sydney in 1879 and is also known from Stradbroke Island, southern Queensland.
The family includes only two genera and about 25 species of which most occur in the Palaearctic (Gaedike 1974; Agassiz 1985).
General References
Agassiz, D.J.L. 1985. Douglasiidae. 408-409, pl. 11 in Emmet, A.M. (ed.). The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Colchester : Harley Books Vol. 2 461 pp.
Gaedike, R. 1974. Revision der paläarktischen Douglasiidae (Lepidoptera). Sbornik Faunistickych Prací Entomologickeho Oddeleni Národniho Musea v Praze (Acta Faunistica Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae) 15: 79-102