Meessiidae

Meessiidae is a family of moths in the superfamily Tineoidea. There are at least 2 genera and more than 80 described species in Meessiidae.^[1][2][3]

Meessiidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Tineoidea
Family:	Meessiidae (Zagulyaev, 1958)

Genera

These two genera belong to the family Meessiidae:

• Bathroxena Meyrick, 1919
• Eudarcia Clemens, 1860

References

1. "Meessiidae". GBIF. Archived from the original on 2019-05-12. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
2. "Family Meessiidae information". BugGuide.net. Archived from the original on 2019-05-12. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
3. Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald R.; Harrison, Terry L.; et al. (2014). "A molecular phylogeny and revised classification for the oldest ditrysian moth lineages (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea), with implications for ancestral feeding habits of the mega-diverse Ditrysia". Systematic Entomology. 40 (2): 409–432. doi:10.1111/syen.12110. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 85287782. Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-08-21.

Further reading

• Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication. Vol. 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 978-1-884549-21-2.
• Gaedike, Reinhard; Šumpich, Jan (2017). "Tinea altaica sp. nov. and new records of some small moths from the Russian Altai (Lepidoptera: Meessiidae, Tineidae, Douglasiidae, Epermeniidae, Glyphipterigidae: Acrolepiinae)". Zootaxa. 4179 (3): 547–560. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.9. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 27811686.
• Grote, Aug. R.; Robinson, C. T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
• Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E. W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287. Archived from the original on 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2019-05-12.