Meessiidae is a family of moths in the superfamily Tineoidea. There are at least 2 genera and more than 80 described species in Meessiidae.[1][2][3]
| Meessiidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Tineoidea |
| Family: | Meessiidae (Zagulyaev, 1958) |
Genera edit
These two genera belong to the family Meessiidae:
- Bathroxena Meyrick, 1919
- Eudarcia Clemens, 1860
References edit
- ^ "Meessiidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ "Family Meessiidae information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald R.; Harrison, Terry L.; et al. (2014). "A molecular phylogeny and revised classification for the oldest ditrysian moth lineages (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea), with implications for ancestral feeding habits of the mega-diverse Ditrysia". Systematic Entomology. 40 (2): 409–432. doi:10.1111/syen.12110. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 85287782.
Further reading edit
- Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication. Vol. 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 978-1-884549-21-2.
- Gaedike, Reinhard; Šumpich, Jan (2017). "Tinea altaica sp. nov. and new records of some small moths from the Russian Altai (Lepidoptera: Meessiidae, Tineidae, Douglasiidae, Epermeniidae, Glyphipterigidae: Acrolepiinae)". Zootaxa. 4179 (3): 547–560. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.9. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 27811686.
- Grote, Aug. R.; Robinson, C. T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
- Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E. W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
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