Hyblaeidae Explained

Hyblaeidae are the "teak moths", a family of insects in the Lepidopteran order. The two genera with about 18 species make up one of the two families of the Hyblaeoidea superfamily (the other family being the monotypic Prodidactidae),^[1] which in the past has been included in the Pyraloidea. Recent phylogenetic studies find varying relationships of Hyblaeoidea among Ditrysian Lepidoptera: Mutanen et al. (2010) find the superfamily to group either with Pyraloidea, or – more often – with Thyridoidea or butterflies.^[2] The results of Wahlberg et al. (2013) and Heikilä et al. (2015) indicate a sister-group relationship with Pyraloidea.^{[3] [4]}

Males have a specialised "hair-pencil" on the hindleg.^[5]

The genus Hyblaea is distributed throughout the Old World tropics, and Torone in the Neotropics. Caterpillar host plants are well known and comprise almost exclusively species of the families Bignoniaceae, Verbenaceae, the mangrove families Avicenniaceae and Rhizophoraceae and a few other families.^[6]

Sources

• Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole,, 2002

External links

• Tree of Life
• Hyblaeidae of Australia
• Natural History Museum hosts database
• Hyblaea constellata Accessed 4 Mar 2007
• Caterpillar of Hyblaea puera Cramer Accessed 4 Mar 2007
• CSIRO Slideshow of Hyblaeidae

Notes and References

1. Kaila . Lauri . Epstein . Marc E. . Heikkilä . Maria . Mutanen . Marko . 2013 . The assignment of Prodidactidae to Hyblaeoidea, with remarks on Thyridoidea (Lepidoptera) . Zootaxa . 3682 . 3 . 485–494 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.3.9 . 25243303 . 10.1.1.348.5228 .
2. Mutanen . Marko . Wahlberg . Niklas . Kaila . Lauri . 2010 . Comprehensive gene and taxon coverage elucidates radiation patterns in moths and butterflies . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 277 . 1695 . 2839–2848 . 10.1098/rspb.2010.0392 . 20444718 . 2981981 . free .
3. Wahlberg . Niklas . Wheat . Christopher W. . Peña . Carlos . 2013 . Timing and Patterns in the Taxonomic Diversification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths) . PLOS ONE . 8 . 11 . e80875 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0080875 . 24282557 . 3839996 . 2013PLoSO...880875W . free .
4. Heikkilä . Maria . Mutanen . Marko . Wahlberg . Niklas . Sihvonen . Pasi . Kaila . Lauri . 2015 . Elusive ditrysian phylogeny: an account of combining systematized morphology with molecular data (Lepidoptera) . BMC Evolutionary Biology . 15 . 260 . 10.1186/s12862-015-0520-0 . 26589618 . 4654798 . 15327767 . free .
5. Book: Dugdale . J.S. . Kristensen . Niels Peder . Robinson . Gaden S. . Scoble . Malcolm J. . 1999 . The smaller Microlepidoptera grade superfamilies, Chapter 13 . 217–232 . Kristensen . Niels Peder . 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 . Walter de Gruyter . Berlin, New York.
6. Web site: Robinson . Gaden S. . Ackery . P. R. . Kitching . Ian J. . Beccaloni . G. W. . Hernández . L. M. . 2010 . HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. www.nhm.ac.uk/hosts . Natural History Museum . London . 2020-07-29 . 2020-07-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200714154003/https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/index.dsml . live .