Brachodidae
Encyclopedia
Brachodidae is a family of day-flying moth
s, commonly known as little bear moths, which contains about 100 species distributed around much of the world (Edwards et al. 1999). The relationships and status of the presently included genera are not well understood.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s, commonly known as little bear moths, which contains about 100 species distributed around much of the world (Edwards et al. 1999). The relationships and status of the presently included genera are not well understood.
Genera
- Atractoceros
- Brachodes
- Callatolmis
- Euthorybeta
- Gora
- Hoplophractis
- Jonaca
- Miscera
- Nigilgia
- Palamernis
- Phycodes
- Polyphlebia
- Procerata
- Pseudocossus
- Sagalassa
- Sisyroctenis
- Synechodes
- Tegna
External links
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=brachodidae&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&SUBFAMILY=&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&TRIBE=&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&SUBTRIBE=&GENUSqtype=starts+with&GENUS=&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&AUTHOR=&YEARqtype=equals&YEAR=&sort=GENUSNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database]
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