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Phiditia

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Phiditia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Family: Phiditiidae
Genus: Phiditia
Möschler, 1883[1]
Type species
Phalaena diores
Cramer, 1775

Phiditia is a genus of moths of the family Phiditiidae erected by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1883.

Taxonomy

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The genus was treated in the Lymantriidae by Allan Watson, David Stephen Fletcher and I. W. B. Nye in 1980. It was later transferred to the Apatelodidae by Joël Minet in 1986. Minet designated it as the type genus for the new subfamily Phiditiinae,[2] which was elevated to family level in 2011.[3]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku (ed.). "Phiditia Möschler, 1883". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  2. ^ Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Phiditia Möschler, 1883". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  3. ^ Zwick, Andreas; Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Cummings, Michael P. (2010-09-30). "Increased gene sampling yields robust support for higher-level clades within Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 36: 31–43. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00543.x.