Prodidactis

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Day 37 Teak Moth (Prodidactis mystica) (53289780228).jpg

| display_parents = 5

| grandparent_authority = Epstein & Brown, 2003

| genus = Prodidactis

| parent_authority = Meyrick, 1921

| species = mystica

| authority = (Meyrick, 1918)

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Prodidactis mystica is an enigmatic Pyraloidea-like moth from southern Africa which has been placed in its own family, Prodidactidae and which belongs in the lepidopteran group Apoditrysia.{{cite web |url=http://www.tolweb.org/Apoditrysia |title=Apoditrysia |publisher=Tree of Life Web Project}} Its closest relative amongst this large group of Lepidoptera is uncertain,{{cite journal|last=van Nieukerken|first=Erik J. |author2=Lauri Kaila |author3=Ian J. Kitching |author4=Niels P. Kristensen |author5=David C. Lees |author6=Joël Minet |author7=Charles Mitter |author8=Marko Mutanen |author9=Jerome C. Regier |author10=Thomas J. Simonsen |author11=Niklas Wahlberg |author12=Shen-Horn Yen |author13=Reza Zahiri |author14=David Adamski |author15=Joaquin Baixeras |author16=Daniel Bartsch |author17=Bengt Å. Bengtsson |author18=John W. Brown |author19=Sibyl Rae Bucheli |author20=Donald R. Davis |author21=Jurate De Prins |author22=Willy De Prins |author23=Marc E. Epstein |author24=Patricia Gentili-Poole |author25=Cees Gielis |author25-link=Cees Gielis |author26=Peter Hättenschwiler |author27=Axel Hausmann |author28=Jeremy D. Holloway |author29=Axel Kallies |author30=Ole Karsholt|authorlink31=Akito Y. Kawahara |author31=Akito Y. Kawahara |author32=Sjaak (J.C.) Koster |author33=Mikhail V. Kozlov |author34=J. Donald Lafontaine |author35=Gerardo Lamas |author36=Jean-François Landry |author37=Sangmi Lee |author38=Matthias Nuss |author39=Kyu-Tek Park |author40=Carla Penz |author41=Jadranka Rota |author42=Alexander Schintlmeister |author43=B. Christian Schmidt |author44=Jae-Cheon Sohn |author45=M. Alma Solis |author45-link=Maria Alma Solis |author46=Gerhard M. Tarmann |author47=Andrew D. Warren |author48=Susan Weller |author49=Roman V. Yakovlev |author50=Vadim V. Zolotuhin |author51=Andreas Zwick |title=Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758|journal=Zootaxa|date=23 December 2011|volume=3148|series=Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness|pages=212–221|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf|editor1-first=Zhi-Qiang|editor1-last=Zhang|ref=Zootaxa}} but morphological and molecular evidence suggests placement of Prodidactidae in Hyblaeoidea.{{cite journal|last1=Kaila|first1=Lauri|last2=Epstein|first2=Marc E.|last3=Heikkilä|first3=Maria|last4=Mutanen|first4=Marko|title=The assignment of Prodidactidae to Hyblaeoidea, with remarks on Thyridoidea (Lepidoptera)|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3682|issue=3|year=2013|pages=485–494|issn=1175-5334|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3682.3.9|pmid=25243303|citeseerx=10.1.1.348.5228}} The larval food plant is Nuxia congesta (Stilbaceae).{{cite journal |author=Marc E. Epstein & John W. Brown |year=2003 |title=Early stages of the enigmatic Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick) with comments on its new family assignment (Lepidoptera: Prodidactidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=247 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.247.1.1 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2003f/z00247f.pdf }}