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Aenigmatineidae

Wikipedia Abstract

Aenigmatineidae is a family of basal Lepidoptera, moths discovered on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The family is based on a single species Aenigmatinea glatzella. The larvae feed on conifers by mining the stem of Callitris plants in the cypress family. The adult has highly reduced mouthparts but its position in the Glossata containing the more familiar moths-with-tongues is confirmed by morphological and DNA sequence similarity. The group is best treated as a sister of the family Neopseustidae.
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Genus

Aenigmatinea (1)   (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0