| Whalleyana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Clade: | Ditrysia |
| Clade: | Apoditrysia |
| Clade: | Obtectomera |
| Superfamily: | Whalleyanoidea Minet, 1991 |
| Family: | Whalleyanidae Minet, 1991 |
| Genus: | Whalleyana Viette, 1977 |
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| Diversity | |
| 2 species | |
Whalleyana is an enigmatic genus of moths in the lepidopteran group Obtectomera, endemic to Madagascar. The genus contains two species, whose biology are unknown. The genus had been placed in the picture-winged leaf moths, (Thyrididae), but then was placed in its own family (Minet, 1991), and later elevated to its own superfamily (Dugdale et al., 1999: 229-230); see also Fänger (2004). The genus was named after Paul E. S. Whalley, a British entomologist. Genomic studies have found them to be most closely related to Callidulidae, and it is suggested that they should be placed in Calliduloidea.
References
- Obtectomera
- Heppner, John B. (August 2008). Capinera, John L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Entomology, Volume 4 (2nd ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 2889.
- Twort, Victoria G.; Minet, Joël; Wheat, Christopher W.; Wahlberg, Niklas (2021). "Museomics of a rare taxon: placing Whalleyanidae in the Lepidoptera Tree of Life". Systematic Entomology. 46 (4): 926–937. doi:10.1111/syen.12503. hdl:10138/334567. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 237486697.
- Dugdale, J.S., Kristensen, N.P., Robinson, G.S. and Scoble, M.J. (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 13, pp. 217–233 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
- Fänger, H.. 2004. Comparative morphology of tergal phragmata occurring in the dorsal thoraco-abdominal junction of ditrysian Lepidoptera (Insecta). Zoomorphology, 119 (3): 163-183.pdf
- Minet, J. (1991). Tentative reconstruction of the ditrysian phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Glossata). Entomologica Scandinavica, 22: 69-95.
Sources
- Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002
External links
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Whalleyana | |
| Whalleyanidae | |
| Whalleyanoidea | |
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