Hepialoidea

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Phymatopus hecta3.jpg

| image_caption = Phymatopus hecta

| taxon = Hepialoidea

| authority = Stephens, 1829

| diversity = 67 genera and at least 617 species

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = *Anomosetidae

}}

The Hepialoidea are the superfamily of "ghost moths" and "swift moths".Kristensen, N. P. (1999). The homoneurous Glossata. pp. 51–63 In: Kristensen, N.P. (ed.), Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies, 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology, volume 4 (35). Walter de Gruyter. Berlin, New York.

Fossils

Fossil Hepialoidea appear to be few.Kristensen, N. P. and Skalski, A.W. (1999). Phylogeny and paleontology. Pages 7-25 in: Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Part 35. N. P. Kristensen, ed. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York Prohepialus (possibly Hepialidae) has been described from the about 35-million-year-old Bembridge marls of Isle of Wight.Jarzembowski, E.A. (1980). Fossil, insects from the Bembridge Marls, Palaeogene of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Geology), 33: 237-293. A mid-Miocene hepialoid fossil is also known from China.Zhang, J. (1989). Fossil insects from Shanwung, Shandong, China. Shandong Science and Technology Publishing House.

References

External links

[http://www.tolweb.org/Hepialidae Tree of Life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930212236/http://www.tolweb.org/Hepialidae |date=2007-09-30 }}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060502084542/http://www.sciencebuff.org/genera_and_species.php Hepialidae of the World - List of Genera and Links to Species]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070401232702/http://www.troplep.org/commndx.htm Common Name Index]

Category:Lepidoptera superfamilies

Category:Taxa named by James Francis Stephens