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Tridentaforma

Tridentaforma is a genus of moths of the Tridentaformidae family, the sole genus of the family. There is only one species in the genus, Tridentaforma fuscoleuca, which is found in California and Canada.

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Tridentaforma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Adeloidea
Family: Tridentaformidae
Regier et al., 2015
Genus: Tridentaforma
Davis, 1978
Species:
T. fuscoleuca
Binomial name
Tridentaforma fuscoleuca
(Braun, 1923)1
Synonyms
  • Lampronia fuscoleuca Braun, 1923

Tridentaforma is a genus of moths of the Tridentaformidae family, the sole genus of the family. There is only one species in the genus (and the family), Tridentaforma fuscoleuca, which is found in California and Canada.234

The wingspan is 8.5-20.5 mm.5

Tridentaforma has been considered a member of the family Incurvariidae1 and Prodoxidae6 in the past. In 2015, Regier, et al. described a new family, Tridentaformidae, containing the "problematic genus" Tridentaforma.4

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References

  1. Tridentaforma at funet
  2. Pohl, Gregory R.; Landry, Jean-François; Schmidt, B. Chris; deWaard, Jeremy R. (2019). "Lepidoptera of Canada". ZooKeys (819): 463–505. doi:10.3897/zookeys.819.27259. PMC 6355748. PMID 30713459.
  3. mothphotographersgroup
  4. Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Kristensen, Niels P.; Davis, Donald R.; et al. (2015). "A molecular phylogeny for the oldest (nonditrysian) lineages of extant Lepidoptera, with implications for classification, comparative morphology and life‐history evolution". Systematic Entomology. 40 (4): 671–704. doi:10.1111/syen.12129.
  5. Two New Genera of North American Incurvariine Moths
  6. "Rangomaramidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-06-09.