Cecidosidae

Taxobox
name = Incurvariidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
superordo = Amphiesmenoptera
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Glossata
cohort = Myoglossata
subcohort = Neolepidoptera
infraordo = Heteroneura
superfamilia = Incurvarioidea
familia = Cecidosidae
diversity = About 8 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Genus
subdivision = "Cecidoses" "Dicranoses" "Eucecidoses" "Oliera" "Ptisanora" "Scyrothis" "Xanadoses"

Cecidosidae is a little known family of primitive monotrysian moths in the order Lepidoptera which have a piercing ovipositor used for laying eggs in plant tissue in which they induce galls, or they mine in bark (Davis, 1999; Hoare and Dugdale, 2003). Two species occur in South Africa, five species in South America (Parra, 1998) and "Xanadoses nielseni" was recently described from New Zealand (Hoare and Dugdale, 2003). Some minute parasitoid wasps are known (Burks "et al"., 2005).

References

*Burks, R.A. Gibson, G.A.P. and La Salle, J. (2005). Nomenclatural changes in Neotropical Eulophidae, Eupelmidae and Torymidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) relating to parasitoids of "Cecidoses eremita" (Lepidoptera: Cecidosidae). "Zootaxa", 1082: 45-55. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z01082p055f.pdf pdf] .
*Davis, D.R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Ch. 6, pp. 65-90 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). "Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies". Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
*Hoare, R.J.B. and Dugdale, J.S. (2003). Description of the New Zealand incurvarioid "Xanadoses nielseni", gen. nov., sp. nov. and placement in Cecidosidae (Lepidoptera). "Invertebrate Systematics", 17(1): 47-57.
*Parra, L.E. (1998). A redescription of "Cecidoses argentinana" (Cecidosidae) and its early stages, with comments on its taxonomic position. "Nota Lepidopterologica", 21(3): 206-214.

External links

* [http://tolweb.org/Cecidosidae Tree of Life]
* [http://www.hayawani.de/systematik.Cecidosidae_73956.html Hayawani tree]
* [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=cecidosidae&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&SUBFAMILY=&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&TRIBE=&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&SUBTRIBE=&GENUSqtype=starts+with&GENUS=&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&AUTHOR=&YEARqtype=equals&YEAR=&sort=GENUS Available generic names from Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database]