Meessiidae

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Meessiidae
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Tineoidea
Family: Meessiidae
(Zagulyaev, 1958)

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]

Genera[]

These two genera belong to the family Meessiidae:

References[]

  1. ^ "Meessiidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. ^ 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[]

  • Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication. 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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