Palaeosetidae

Palaeosetidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Glossata
Infraorder:	Exoporia
Superfamily:	Hepialoidea
Family:	Palaeosetidae
Genera and species
Palaeoses Turner, 1922 Palaeoses scholastica Turner, 1922 Genustes Issiki and Stringer, 1932 Genustes lutata Issiki and Stringer, 1932 Ogygioses Issiki and Stringer, 1932 Ogygioses caliginosa Issiki and Stringer, 1932 Ogygioses eurata Issiki and Stringer, 1932 Ogygioses issikii Davis, 1995 Ogygioses luangensis Kristensen, 1995 Osrhoes Druce, 1900 Osrhoes coronta Druce, 1900
Diversity
4 genera and 7 species

Palaeosetidae or "Miniature Ghost Moths" is a family of insects in the Lepidopteran order contained within the superfamily Hepialoidea.

Taxonomy and systematics

Palaeosetidae is a primitive family of Hepialoidea with four currently recognised genera and seven species.

Distribution

One genus occurs in Colombia, South America (Osrhoes) and the other three genera have an Old World distribution from Assam to Australia (Kristensen, 1999: 59-61; Nielsen et al., 2000).

References

• Kristensen, N.P., (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41-62 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.
• Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) Journal of Natural History, 34(6): 823-878.Abstract

Sources

• Common Name Index

External links

• Tree of Life
• Ogygioses
• Wikispecies