Glitter Moths

Glitter Moths
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Squad:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Glossata
Family:	Glitter Moths
Latin name
	Heliozelidae Heinemann & Wocke , 1877

Moths-glitter , or circle moths ( lat. Heliozelidae ) - a family of butterflies .

Content

Description

Butterflies are very small. Wingspan 3.5-9 mm. The wings are lanceolate. Antennae reach 1/2 front wing length. No eyes. Fore wings dark with transverse stripes and strokes. The median cell of the fore wing is not divided by the stem M , R ₅ and M ₁ on a common stem, M ₃ sometimes and Cu ₁ are reduced. Anal plug is not expressed.

Biology

Caterpillars are leafy miners of woody plants. Younger ages form serpentine mines, which then expand to become swollen. Pelletize on soil in a sheath cut out of a leaf. Worldwide distribution, in the Palaearctic 4 genera.

Classification

The family has 12 genera and about 120 species (data for 2011) ^[2] .

Antispila
Antispilina
Coptodisca
Dyselachista
Heliozela
Holocacista
Hoplophanes
Lamprozela
Monachozela
Phanerozela
Plesiozela
Tyriozela

Notes

↑ Hermann von Heinemann; Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke, Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, 1876, Vol. 2, 389-825, (+) 1-102.
↑ Van Nieukerken, Erik J., Lauri Kaila, Ian J. Kitching, Niels P. Kristensen, David C. Lees, Joël Minet, Charles Mitter, Marko Mutanen, Jerome C. Regier, Thomas J. Simonsen, Niklas Wahlberg, Shen- horn Yen, Reza Zahiri, David Adamski, Joaquin Baixeras, Daniel Bartsch, Bengt Å. Bengtsson, John W. Brown, Sibyl Rae Bucheli, Donald R. Davis, Jurate De Prins, Willy De Prins, Marc E. Epstein, Patricia Gentili-Poole, Cees Gielis, Peter Hättenschwiler, Axel Hausmann, Jeremy D. Holloway, Axel Kallies , Ole Karsholt, Akito Y. Kawahara, Sjaak (JC) Koster, Mikhail V. Kozlov, J. Donald Lafontaine, Gerardo Lamas, Jean-François Landry, Sangmi Lee, Matthias Nuss, Kyu-Tek Park, Carla Penz, Jadranka Rota, Alexander Schintlmeister, B. Christian Schmidt, Jae-Cheon Sohn, M. Alma Solis, Gerhard M. Tarmann, Andrew D. Warren, Susan Weller, Roman V. Yakovlev, Vadim V. Zolotuhin, Andreas Zwick. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. (Eng.) // In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. - Zootaxa . - Magnolia Press, 2011 .-- Vol. 3148 . - P. 212–221 . - ISSN 1175-5326 .

Literature

Karsholt, O. & NP Kristensen. 2003: Plesiozela, gen. nov. from temperate South America: apparent sister-group of the previously known Heliozelidae (Lepidoptera: Incurvarioidea: Heliozelidae). Invertebrate systematics, 17: 39–46. doi: 10.1071 / IS02047.

[1] Hermann von Heinemann; Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke, Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, 1876, Vol. 2, 389-825, (+) 1-102.

[Nieukerken2011-2] Van Nieukerken, Erik J., Lauri Kaila, Ian J. Kitching, Niels P. Kristensen, David C. Lees, Joël Minet, Charles Mitter, Marko Mutanen, Jerome C. Regier, Thomas J. Simonsen, Niklas Wahlberg, Shen- horn Yen, Reza Zahiri, David Adamski, Joaquin Baixeras, Daniel Bartsch, Bengt Å. Bengtsson, John W. Brown, Sibyl Rae Bucheli, Donald R. Davis, Jurate De Prins, Willy De Prins, Marc E. Epstein, Patricia Gentili-Poole, Cees Gielis, Peter Hättenschwiler, Axel Hausmann, Jeremy D. Holloway, Axel Kallies , Ole Karsholt, Akito Y. Kawahara, Sjaak (JC) Koster, Mikhail V. Kozlov, J. Donald Lafontaine, Gerardo Lamas, Jean-François Landry, Sangmi Lee, Matthias Nuss, Kyu-Tek Park, Carla Penz, Jadranka Rota, Alexander Schintlmeister, B. Christian Schmidt, Jae-Cheon Sohn, M. Alma Solis, Gerhard M. Tarmann, Andrew D. Warren, Susan Weller, Roman V. Yakovlev, Vadim V. Zolotuhin, Andreas Zwick. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. (Eng.) // In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. - Zootaxa . - Magnolia Press, 2011 .-- Vol. 3148 . - P. 212–221 . - ISSN 1175-5326 .