| Prodidactis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Clade: | Apoditrysia |
| Clade: | Obtectomera |
| Superfamily: | Hyblaeoidea |
| Family: | Prodidactidae Epstein & Brown, 2003 |
| Genus: | Prodidactis Meyrick, 1921 |
| Species: | P. mystica
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| Binomial name | |
| Prodidactis mystica (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.1 Its closest relative amongst this large group of Lepidoptera is uncertain,2 but morphological and molecular evidence suggests placement of Prodidactidae in Hyblaeoidea.3 The larval food plant is Nuxia congesta (Stilbaceae).4
References
References
- "Apoditrysia". Tree of Life Web Project.
- van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Lauri Kaila; Ian J. Kitching; Niels P. Kristensen; David C. Lees; Joël Minet; Charles Mitter; Marko Mutanen; Jerome C. Regier; Thomas J. Simonsen; Niklas Wahlberg; Shen-Horn Yen; Reza Zahiri; David Adamski; Joaquin Baixeras; Daniel Bartsch; Bengt Å. Bengtsson; John W. Brown; Sibyl Rae Bucheli; Donald R. Davis; Jurate De Prins; Willy De Prins; Marc E. Epstein; Patricia Gentili-Poole; Cees Gielis; Peter Hättenschwiler; Axel Hausmann; Jeremy D. Holloway; Axel Kallies; Ole Karsholt; Akito Y. Kawahara; Sjaak (J.C.) Koster; Mikhail V. Kozlov; J. Donald Lafontaine; Gerardo Lamas; Jean-François Landry; Sangmi Lee; Matthias Nuss; Kyu-Tek Park; Carla Penz; Jadranka Rota; Alexander Schintlmeister; B. Christian Schmidt; Jae-Cheon Sohn; M. Alma Solis; Gerhard M. Tarmann; Andrew D. Warren; Susan Weller; Roman V. Yakovlev; Vadim V. Zolotuhin; Andreas Zwick (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758" (PDF). Zootaxa. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. 3148: 212–221.
- Kaila, Lauri; Epstein, Marc E.; Heikkilä, Maria; Mutanen, Marko (2013). "The assignment of Prodidactidae to Hyblaeoidea, with remarks on Thyridoidea (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 3682 (3): 485–494. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.348.5228. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3682.3.9. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25243303.
- Marc E. Epstein & John W. Brown (2003). "Early stages of the enigmatic Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick) with comments on its new family assignment (Lepidoptera: Prodidactidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 247: 1–16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.247.1.1.
External links
External links
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Prodidactis mystica". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 16, 2018.