|
Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta >
Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa
> Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Phylum:
Arthopoda > Mandibulata >
Atelocerata > Panhexapoda >
Hexapoda
> Insecta (insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota >
Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola > Holometabola > Panorpida > Amphiesmenoptera Moths and butterflies are distinguished from other insects by having scales on their
wings. Butterflies can usually be distinguished from moths by their clubbed antennae.
Classification of taxa recorded from southern Africa
Micropterigidae
One genus native to southern Africa:
Agrionympha |
|
Glossata |
|
| |
Coelolepida |
|
| |
|
Myoglossata |
|
| |
|
|
Neolepidoptera |
|
| |
|
|
|
Hepialoidea |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Prototheoridae
One genus,
Prototheora, with 11 species native to southern Africa. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Hepialidae (ghost moths)
Six genera and 66 species native to southern
Africa |
|
| |
|
|
|
Heteroneura |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Nepticuloidea |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Nepticulidae
Eight genera and 118 species native in southern Africa |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Opostegidae
Two genera and 15 species native to southern Africa |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Incurvarioidea |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Heliozelidae
One genus,
Antispila, native to southern Africa, with two species recorded
from this region. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Adelidae
Three genera and 68 species native to southern Africa |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Incurvariidae
Protaephagus capensis is the only species native to southern Africa. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Cecidosidae
One genus, Scyrotis
native to southern Africa, with four species recorded from the region. Includes
Scyrotis athleta
(Jumping-ball moth), which galls leaves of Searsia lucida. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Prodoxidae
Two genera and two species native to southern Africa |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tischerioidea |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Tischeriidae
One genus and one species native to southern Africa: Tischeria zextica |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
DITRYSIA
|
 |
Publications
Southern African moths and butterflies
-
Kroon, D.M. 1999. Lepidoptera of Southern
Africa - Host-plants and other Associations. A Catalogue. Published by
the author and Lepidopterists' Society of Africa, P.O. Box 477, Jukskei Park
2153, South Africa.
-
Migdoll, I. 1987. Field Guide to the Butterflies of
Southern Africa. C. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.
-
Pinhey, E.C.G. 1975. Moths of Southern
Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town.
-
Pringle, E.L.L., Henning, G.A. & Ball, J.B. 1994.
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa. Second edition. Struik
Winchester, Cape Town.
-
Vári, L., Kroon, D.M. and Krüger, M. 2002.
Classification and Checklist of the Species of Lepidoptera
Recorded in Southern Africa. Privately Published (ISBN
0-620-29110-9; available from P.O. Box 572, Sasolburg 1947,
South Africa).
Biology of Lepidoptera
|
