Monotrysia
| Monotrysia | |
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| Cuckoo flower longhorn moth, Cauchas rufimitrella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
| (unranked): | Monotrysia |
Superfamilies
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Monotrysia (Börner, 1939)
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The Monotrysia are a group of
most of the group consists of small, relatively understudied species.See also
References
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- ^ Dugdale, J.S. (1974). Female genital classification in the classification of Lepidoptera. New Zealand Journal of Entomology, 1(2): 127-146. pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Davis, D. R. (1986). "A new family of monotrysian moths from austral South America (Lepidoptera: Palaephatidae), with a phylogenetic review of the Monotrysia". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 434: 1–202.
- ^ Davis, D. R. and Gentili, P. (2003). Andesianidae, a new family of monotrysian moths (Lepidoptera: Andesianoidea) from South America. Invertebrate Systematics, 17: 15-26.Abstract
Further reading
- Davis D. R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Pages 65–90 in: Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Part 35. N. P. Kristensen, ed. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York.