Dryadaula are a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. [1] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1893, and it belongs to the subfamily or family Dryadaulidae, according to most recent taxonomies.[2][3]

Dryadaula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Dryadaulinae
Genus: Dryadaula
Meyrick, 1893
Type species
Dryadaula glycinopa
Meyrick, 1893
Synonyms
  • Archimeessia Zagulajev, 1970
  • Chorocosma Meyrick, 1893
  • Choropleca Durrant, 1914
  • Cyane V.T. Chambers, 1873
  • Diachalastis Meyrick, 1920
  • Ditrigonophora Walsingham, 1897
  • Opsodoca Meyrick, 1919
  • Strophalinga Gozmany & Vári, 1973
  • Thermocrates Meyrick, 1936

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dryadaula​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Meyrick, Edward (1893). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 17: 477–612. ISSN 0370-047X – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. ^ Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2018.

Yang, Lin-Lin; Li, Hou-Hun (1 December 2021). "The genus Dryadaula Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Tineoidea, Dryadaulidae) in China, with descriptions of four new species and a world checklist". ZooKeys (1074): 61–81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1074.73067. PMC 8654812. PMID 34963753 – via Pensoft.