Apatelodidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Bombycoidea

Family: Apatelodidae
Genera: Apatelodes – Arotros – Asocia – Carnotena – Drepatelodes – Ephoria – Falcatelodes – Olceclostera – Pantelodes – Prothysana – Tarchon – Thelosia – Thyrioclostera – Zanola
Name

Apatelodidae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894.
Synonyms

Zanolidae

References

Becker, V.O. 1996: Apatelodidae, Bombycidae & Mimallonidae pp. 13-19, in Heppner JB (Ed.): Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4B. Drepanioidea-Bombycoidea-Sphingoidea. Association of Tropical Lepidoptera & Scientific Publishers. Gainesville, Florida. Reference page.
Becker, V.O., 2001: The Identity of some unrecognized Neotropical Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera) described by Francis Walker. Revista Brasileira de Zoologica 18 (1): 153–157. Full article: [1].
Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Dexter, Kitching, Breinholt, J.W., Zwick, A., Timmermans, Barber & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Phylogenomics resolves major relationships and reveals significant diversification rate shifts in the evolution of silk moths and relatives. BMC evolutionary biology. [[2]] Reference page.
Herbin, D. 2015. Description de nouvelles espèces d’Hétérocères de Guyane française avec notes taxinomiques (Lepidoptera Mimallonidae et Apatelodidae). Antenor 2(1): 81–105. Reference page.
Herbin, D. 2017. Description de nouveaux Hétérocères néotropicaux (Lepidoptera Apatelodidae). Antenor [[3]] 4(2): 114–134. Reference page.
Herbin, D. 2018. Nouveaux Apatelodidae du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève. Antenor 5(1): 37–42. Reference page.
Herbin, D. & Beccacece, H.M. 2018. Description of three new species of Apatelodidae from the southern neotropical region (Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea). Pp 3-17 In
Schmidt, B.C. & Lafontaine, J.D. (eds.) 2018. Contributions to the systematics of New World macro-moths VII. ZooKeys 788: 1–252. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.788.30148 Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.788.25323 Reference page.
Herbin, D., Orlandin E. & Carneiro, E. 2021. Taxonomic revision of Arotros Schaus, 1892 with description of seven new species (Lepidoptera: Apatelodidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 42(3): 125–144. Reference page.
Herbin, D. 2021. New species of Apatelodidae (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea) from Andean countries. The European Entomologist 13(1): 55–64. Reference page.
Kitching, I.J., Rougerie, R., Zwick, A., Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Naumann, S., Mejia, L.B. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. Reference page.
van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. PDF. Reference page.
Zwick, A. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of Anthelidae and other bombycoid taxa (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea). Systematic entomology 33(1): 190–209. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2007.00410.x Reference page.

Vernacular names
中文: 枯叶带蛾科

Apatelodidae, the American silkworm moths, is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera. They are a family within the superfamily Bombycoidea.[1][2]

Distribution

Species are exclusively found in the New World, with the highest diversity in the Neotropical realm.
Diversity

The family consists of about 17 genera and about 250 species.
Taxonomy

There is only one subfamily (Apatelodinae) with the removal of the Phiditiidae as a separate family, and the more recently resolved placement of Epiinae; historically, Apatelodinae, Epiinae, and Phiditiinae were all placed in the Bombycidae, but now only Epiinae remains there, including some genera formerly placed in Apatelodinae, such as Anticla and Quentalia.[3]

Apatelodes Packard, 1864
Arotros Schaus, 1892
Carnotena Walker, 1865
Cheneya Schaus, 1929
Colabata Walker, 1856
Drepatelodes Draudt, 1929
Falcatelodes Draudt, 1929
Olceclostera Butler, 1878
Orgyopsis Felder, 1874
Prismoptera Butler, 1878
Prothysana Walker, 1855
Thelosia Schaus, 1896
Thyrioclostera Draudt, 1929
Zanola Walker, 1855

References

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.
Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236
Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Dexter, K. et al. Phylogenomics resolves major relationships and reveals significant diversification rate shifts in the evolution of silk moths and relatives. BMC Evol Biol 19, 182 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1505-1