Prototheoridae

Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta
Ordo : Lepidoptera
Familia : Prototheoridae
Meyrick, 1917
Genus : Prototheora
Meyrick, 1917

Subdivisiones: Genus and synonymy

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Synonyma

*Metatheora Meyrick, 1919

Prototheoridae (Anglice African primitive ghost moths) sunt familia papilionum superfamiliae Hepialoideorum, in Africa australi endemica.

Diversitas et distributio

Prototheoridae tredecim species nunc notas comprehendunt, in singulo genere (Prototheora), in Africa Australi (Kristensen 1999:60; Nielsen et al. 2000), vel ad Angolam (Prototheora angolae) et Mulanje Massif Malavii endemico (Davis 2001). Vide etiam retractationes a Janse (1942) et Davis (1996) factas.

Prototheora parachlora (Meyrick, 1919) (olim in Metatheora)
- =Prototheora paraglossa; Janse, 1942
Prototheora petrosema Meyrick, 1917
Prototheora monoglossa Meyrick, 1924
Prototheora corvifera (Meyrick, 1920) (olim in Metatheora)
Prototheora merga Davis, 1996
Prototheora quadricornis Meyrick, 1920
Prototheora biserrata Davis, 1996
Prototheora serruligera Meyrick, 1920
Prototheora cooperi Janse, 1942
Prototheora geniculata Davis, 1996
Prototheora drackensbergae Davis, 1996
Prototheora angolae Davis, 1996
Prototheora malawiensis Davis, 2001

Davis, D. R. 1996. A revision of the southern African family Prototheoridae (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea). Entomologica Scandinavica, 27: 393–439.
Davis, D. R. 2001. A new species of Prototheora from Malawi, with additional notes on the distribution and morphology of the genus (Lepidoptera: Prototheoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 103(2): 452–456. Abstractum.^{[nexus deficit]}
Janse, A. J. T. 1942. The moths of South Africa. Volume IV, part 1. Jugatae.
Kristensen, N. P. 1998. 1999. "The non-Glossatan Moths." In Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies, vol. 1, Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography, ed. N. P. Kristensen, 41–62. Handbook of Zoology, vol. 4, pars. 35. Berolini et Novi Eboraci: Walter de Gruyter.
Nielsen, E. S., G, S, Robinson, et D. L. Wagner. 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.Abstractum.

Insecta

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