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Gelechioidea

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Containing group: Ditrysia

References

Bucheli, S. R. and J. Wenzel. 2005. Gelechioidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) systematics: A reexamination using combined morphology and mitochondrial DNA data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35(2):380-394.

Hodges, R. W. 1999. The Gelechioidea. Pages 131-158 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.

Kaila, L. 2004. Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an exemplar approach. Cladistics 20:303?340.

Minet, J. 1990. Remaniement partiel de la classification des Gelechioidea, essentiellement en fonction de caract?res pr?-imaginaux (Lepidoptera, Ditrysia). Alexanor 16(1989)239-255.

Nielsen, E. S. and I. F. B. Common 1991. Lepidoptera (Moths and butterflies). Pages 817-915 in Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers. Volume I. Second Edition. I. D. Naumann, P. B. Carne, J. F. Lawrence, E. S. Nielsen, J. P. Spradberry, R. W. Taylor, M. J. Whitten and M. J. Littlejohn eds. Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne University Press.

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Scientific Name Alabonia staintonella
Location “Corno alle Scale” Park, Bologna Province, Emilia Romagna, Italy
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
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Copyright © 2005 Cesare Brizio
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