Idioglossa
| Idioglossa | |
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| Idioglossa argodora | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Epimarptidae |
| Genus: | Idioglossa Walsingham, 1881 |
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Idioglossa is a genus of moths of the family Epimarptidae, it was previously part of Batrachedridae or others (see below).
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus was created by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham in 1881 to house the new species Idioglossa bigemma.[1] As Lord Walsingham created it under a then monotypic genus, the species I. bigemma is considered the type species by monotypy. The next year (1882), Lord Walsingham proposed to rename the taxon as Idiostoma, as he considered his previous name inappropriate, but by the rules of nomenclature this later suggested amendment is unnecessary.[2]
The Australian entomologist Ian Common classified it in the subfamily Stathmopodinae of the family Oecophoridae in 1996.[3][4] It was reclassified in the subfamily Batrachedrinae of the Batrachedridae by Kazuhiro Sugisima in 2000 when another species was described.[4] Subsequently, it was included in Epimarptidae Meyrick, 1914.[5] Later, the geographic range of the genus was expanded to include Thailand.[6] Another of the included species is known from the Southeastern United States.[7]
Species
[edit]The genus contains the following species:[1]
- Idioglossa argodora Meyrick, 1913 - India (Southern States)
- Idioglossa bigemma Walsingham, 1881
- Idioglossa bigemma ssp. bigemma - South Africa etc. (Southern Africa)
- Idioglossa bigemma ssp. mascarena Bippus, 2016 - Réunion
- Idioglossa metallochrysa A.J. Turner, 1917 - Australia (northern Queensland)
- Idioglossa miraculosa (Frey & Boll, 1878) - USA (Southeastern states)
- Idioglossa polliacola Sugisima, 2000 - Japan
- Idioglossa thailandica Sugisima, 2004 - Thailand
- Idioglossa triacma Meyrick, 1913 - India (Assam, Khasi Hills)
- Idioglossa triumphalis Meyrick, 1918 - Mozambique (Bela Vista)
Ecology
[edit]Of the species of which a host plant is known, the caterpillars feed on plants of the families Costaceae, Gramineae or Commelinaceae.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Savela, Markku (9 November 2018). "Idioglossa". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
- ^ "Genus Idioglossa Walsingham, 1881". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
- ^ Common, Ian Francis Bell (1996). Nieisen, E. S.; Edwards, E. D.; Rangsi, T. V. (eds.). "Oecophoridae in Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia". Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. 4: 59−89,341–346. ISBN 0-643-05028-0.
- ^ a b Sugisima, Kazuhiro; Arita, Yutaka (2000). "A new species of a gelechioid genus, Idioglossa Walsingham (Lepidoptera, Batrachedridae, Batrachedrinae), from Japan". Lepidoptera Science. 51 (4): 319–336. doi:10.18984/lepid.51.4_319. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
- ^ Wang, Q.-Y.; Li, H.-H. (2020). "Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera), with an exploratory application on geometric morphometrics". Zoologica Scripta. 49 (3): 307–328.
- ^ Sugisima, K. (2004). "A new Idioglossa species (Lepidoptera, Batrachedridae, Batrachedrinae) from Thailand". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 55 (1): 9–33. doi:10.18984/lepid.55.1_29.
- ^ Kaila, L.; Landry, J.-F. (2023), "Epimarptidae", in Pohl, G.R.; Nanz, S.R (eds.), Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico, Bakersfield, California: Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, pp. xiv + 580, ISBN 9780933003217
- ^ HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- See also www.jpmoth.org