Family EPIPYROPIDAE
Compiler and date details
Ebbe S. Nielsen
Introduction
(After Nielsen 1996: 148) Larvae of the Australian species of this family are ectoparasitic on leaf hoppers. Most described Australian genera and species were named by Perkins (1905) as part of a study of the family as possible biological control agents for leaf hoppers. Perkins named three genera and seven species with host records for most species. Rothschild (1906) named a single species but included a review of the biology of the family and reported detailed biological observations made by F.P. Dodd in Queesland.
The species were listed in Lepidopterorum Catalogus by Dyar & Strand (1913). The Australian fauna is currently being revised by D.R. Davis and the present list is based on his unpublished results.
General References
Dyar, H.G. & Strand, E. 1913. Epipyropidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 16: 33–35
Nielsen, E.S. 1996. Epipyropidae. p. 148 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
Perkins, R.C.L. 1905. Leaf-hoppers and their natural enemies (Pt. II. Epipyropidae) Lepidoptera. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1: 75–85
Rothschild, L.W. 1906. On a new parasitic Tineid moth from Queensland discovered by F.P. Dodd [with communication by Dodd]. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 162–169