Urodidae

Urodidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
Infraorder: Heteroneura
(unranked): Ditrysia
Superfamily: Urodoidea
Family: Urodidae
Kyrki, 1984
Genera
  • Adixoana Strand, [1913]
  • Spiladarcha Meyrick, 1913
    • =Anchimacheta Walsingham, 1914
  • Urodus Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
    • =Aperla Walker, 1856
    • =Paratiquadra Walsingham, 1897
    • =Pexicnemidia Möschler, 1890
    • =Trichostibas Zeller, 1863
  • Wockia Heinemann, 1870
    • =Patula Bruand, 1850
    • =Pygmocrates Meyrick, 1932
Diversity
over 60 species

Urodidae or "false burnet moths" is a family of insects in the lepidopteran order, representing its own superfamily, Urodoidea, with three genera, one of which, Wockia, occurs in Europe.

Taxonomy and systematics

Urodidae were previously included in the superfamily Yponomeutoidea (Kyrki, 1984, 1988) and have also been lumped with Galacticidae (Heppner, 1991, 1997) or with other Sesioidea (Heppner, 1998). They belong to the lower part of the lepidopteran clade "Apoditrysia" (Dugdale et al., 1999) (i.e. not "Obtectomera"), but their closest relatives are as yet unknown and it is hoped that DNA sequencing can help resolve this question .

Morphology and identification

Urodidae resemble some Zygaenidae: Procridinae at rest. These small to medium-sized moths measure 11 to 37 mm in wingspan and often have a greyish or mottled forewing background colour. The male adult has a "hairpencil" on the costa of the hindwing. In the caterpillar, the placement of the setae and structure of the prolegs is diagnostic, and the pupal segments I–II are fixed. On the head, there are no ocelli or "chaetosemata" and the proboscis even at the base is unscaled. An "epiphysis" is present on the foreleg (Dugdale et al. (1999), and for more details).

Distribution

The genera Urodus and Spiladarcha occur in the Neotropics while Wockia asperipunctella occurs in Europe and has recently been found in northern North America (Heppner, 1997; Landry, 1998) and unless this is a recent invasion the species would be a good example of a Holarctic distribution pattern.

Biology and host plants

Pupa of an Urodidae species

The biology is poorly known, but the larvae can be found on various tree species including some fruit trees. The "bumelia webworm moth" (Urodus parvula) is recorded on Lauraceae: (avocado=Persea), Fagaceae (Quercus), Sapotaceae (Sideroxylon) and Erythroxylaceae: Erythroxylum. Urodus parvula has also been reared on Rutaceae (Citrus) and Malvaceae (Hibiscus). W. asperipunctella has in North America been reared from quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) (Landry, 1998) and also Salix in Europe. The pupa is contained in an open-mesh cocoon, which can be bright orange in colour, which is sometimes suspended on a very long thread below a leaf.

Provisional list of species (based on Lepindex)

  • Geoesthia ceylonica Sohn, 2014 [type locality Sri Lanka]
  • Spiladarcha capnodes (Walsingham, 1914) (originally in Anchimacheta) [type locality Mexico][1]
  • Spiladarcha derelicta Meyrick, 1913 [type locality British Guiana][2]
  • Spiladarcha iodes (Walsingham, 1914) (originally in Anchimacheta) [type locality Mexico][3]
  • Spiladarcha tolmetes (Walsingham, 1914) (originally in Anchimacheta) [type locality Mexico][4]
  • Urodus amphilocha Meyrick, 1923
  • Urodus aphanoptis Meyrick, 1930
  • Urodus aphrogama Meyrick, 1936
  • Urodus auchmera Walsingham, 1914
  • Urodus brachyanches Meyrick, 1931
  • Urodus calligera Zeller, 1877
  • Urodus carabopa Meyrick, 1925
  • Urodus chiquita Busck, 1910
  • Urodus chrysoconis Meyrick, 1932
  • Urodus costaricae Busck, 1910
  • Urodus cumulata Walsingham, 1914
  • Urodus cyanombra Meyrick, 1913
  • Urodus cyclopica Meyrick, 1930
  • Urodus decens Meyrick, 1925
  • Urodus distincta Strand, 1911
  • Urodus favigera Meyrick, 1913
  • Urodus fonteboae Strand, 1911
  • Urodus forficulella (Walsingham, 1897) (originally in Paratiquadra)
  • Urodus fulminalis Meyrick, 1931
  • Urodus fumosa (Zeller, 1863) (originally in Trichostibas)
  • Urodus hephaestiella (Zeller, 1877)
  • Urodus hexacentris Meyrick, 1931
  • Urodus imitans Felder, 1875
  • Urodus imitata Druce, 1884
  • Urodus iophlebia Zeller, 1877
  • Urodus isoxesta Meyrick, 1932
  • Urodus isthmiella Busck, 1910
  • ?Urodus lissopeda (Meyrick, 1932) (originally in Pygmocrates) [type locality Brazil][5]
  • Urodus lithophaea Meyrick, 1913
  • Urodus marantica Walsingham, 1914
  • Urodus merida Strand, 1911
  • Urodus mirella (Möschler, 1890) (originally in Pexicnemidia)
  • Urodus modesta Druce, 1884
  • Urodus niphatma Meyrick, 1925
  • Urodus opticosema Meyrick, 1930
  • Urodus ovata Zeller, 1877
  • Urodus pallidicostella Walsingham, 1897
  • Urodus pamporphyra Meyrick, 1936
  • Urodus parvula Edwards, 1881
  • Urodus perischias Meyrick, 1925
  • Urodus porphyrina Meyrick, 1932
  • Urodus praetextata Meyrick, 1913
  • Urodus procridias Meyrick, 1936
  • Urodus pulvinata Meyrick, 1923
  • Urodus sanctipaulensis Strand, 1911
  • Urodus scythrochalca Meyrick, 1932
  • Urodus sordidata Zeller, 1877
  • Urodus spumescens Meyrick, 1925
  • Urodus staphylina Meyrick, 1932
  • Urodus subcaerulea Dognin, 1910
  • Urodus sympiestis Meyrick, 1925
  • Urodus tineiformis (Walker, 1856) (originally in Aperla)
  • Urodus transverseguttata Zeller, 1877
  • Urodus triancycla Meyrick, 1931
  • Urodus venatella Busck, 1910 [type locality Brasilien][6]
  • Urodus xiphura Meyrick, 1931
  • Wockia asperipunctella Bruand, 1850 (originally in Anacampsis)
    • =Patula asperipunctella Bruand, 1850 [type locality France][7]
    • =Wockia funebrella Heinemann, 1870[8]

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spiladarcha capnodes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spiladarcha derelicta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spiladarcha iodes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spiladarcha tolmetes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pygmocrates lissopeda". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  6. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Urodus venatella". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Patula asperipunctella". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Wockia asperipunctella". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  • Heppner, J. (1991). Faunal regions and the diversity of Lepidoptera. Tropical Lepidoptera, 2 (Suppl. 1): 1–85.
  • Heppner, J. (1997). Wockia asperipunctella in North America (Lepidoptera: Urodidae: Galacticinae). Holarctic Lepidoptera, 4(2)
  • Heppner, J. (1998). Classification of Lepidoptera. Part 1. Introduction. Holarctic Lepidoptera, 5 (Suppl. 1): 1–148.
  • Kyrki, J. (1983). Adult abdominal sternum II in ditrysian tineoid superfamilies – morphology and phylogenetic significance (Lepidoptera). Annales Entomologia Fennica, 49: 89–9
  • Kyrki, J. (1988). The systematic position of Wockia Heinemann, 1870 and related genera (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia: Yponomeutidae auct.). Nota lepidopterologica, 11: 45–69.
  • Landry, J.-F. (1998). Additional Nearctic records of Wockia aspericpunctella, with notes on its distribution and structural variation (Lepidoptera: Urodidae). Holarctic Lepidoptera, 5(3): 9–13.

Sources

  • Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002. [Vernacular name]
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  • NHM Hosts Database
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  • Moth Photographer's Group
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  • Urodus parvula voucher
  • Barcoding progress
  • Nuclear gene sequencing progress
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