Family SESIIDAE
- Aegeriidae.
- Trochiliidae.
Introduction
[After Nielsen 1996]
The Australian Sessidae were revised by Duckworth & Eichlin (1974). The sequence and nomenclature adopted here follow that of Duckworth & Eichlin (1974) with additional synonyms from Heppner & Duckworth (1981). In both these studies the Sesiidae were divided into three subfamilies: Tinthiinae, Paranthreninae and Sesiinae. However, Naumann (1971, 1977), in a well-documented study of the Holarctic Sessidae, has demonstrated that the Parathrene group of genera (as Paranthrenini) is subordinate within the Sesiinae; Albuna H. Edwards belongs to this tribe. Naumann (1971, 1977) subdivided the Holarctic fauna into several tribes and Duckworth & Echlin (1974) assigned all Australian taxa to tribe. Spatenka et al. (1993) provided a comprehensive account of the family-, genus- and species-group names of the Palaearctic fauna and Arita et al. (1994) reviewed the Japanese fauna.
General References
Arita, Y., Inomata, T. & Ikeda, M. 1994. Sesiidae of Japan. Yadoriga 159: 1-29
Duckworth, W.D. & Eichlin, T.D. 1974. Clearwing moths of Australia and New Zealand (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 180: i-iii, 1-45
Heppner, J.B. & Duckworth, W.D. 1981. Classification of the superfamily Sesioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 314: i-iii, 1-144
Naumann, C. 1971. Untersuchungen zur Systematik und Phylogenese der holarktischen Sesiiden (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Bonner Zoologische Monographien 1: 1-190
Naumann, C. 1977. Studies on the Systematics and Phylogeny of Holarctic Sesiidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera). New Delhi : Amerind Publishing. xii+208 pp. [Translation from German of Naumann 1971.]
Nielsen, E.S. 1996. Sesiidae. pp. 140-141 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
Spatenka, K., Lastuvka, Z., Gorbunov, O., Tosevski, I. & Arita, Y. 1993. Die Systematik und Synonymie der palaarktischen Glasflugler-Arten (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo (N.F.) 14: 81-114