Whalleyana

Whalleyana is an enigmatic genus of moths in the lepidopteran group Obtectomera,^[1] endemic to Madagascar. The genus contains two species, whose biology are unknown. The genus had been placed in the picture-winged leaf moths, (Thyrididae), but then was placed in its own family (Minet, 1991), and later elevated to its own superfamily (Dugdale et al., 1999: 229-230); see also Fänger (2004). The genus was named after Paul E. S. Whalley, a British entomologist.^[2] Genomic studies have found them to be most closely related to Callidulidae, and it is suggested that they should be placed in Calliduloidea.^[3]

Whalleyana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Clade:	Ditrysia
Clade:	Apoditrysia
Clade:	Obtectomera
Superfamily:	Whalleyanoidea Minet, 1991
Family:	Whalleyanidae Minet, 1991
Genus:	Whalleyana Viette, 1977
Species
Whalleyana toni Viette, 1977 Whalleyana vroni Viette, 1977
Diversity
2 species

References

1. Obtectomera
2. Heppner, John B. (August 2008). Capinera, John L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Entomology, Volume 4 (2nd ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 2889.
3. Twort, Victoria G.; Minet, Joël; Wheat, Christopher W.; Wahlberg, Niklas (2021). "Museomics of a rare taxon: placing Whalleyanidae in the Lepidoptera Tree of Life". Systematic Entomology. 46 (4): 926–937. doi:10.1111/syen.12503. hdl:10138/334567. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 237486697.

• Dugdale, J.S., Kristensen, N.P., Robinson, G.S. and Scoble, M.J. (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 13, pp. 217–233 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). 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: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
• Fänger, H.. 2004. Comparative morphology of tergal phragmata occurring in the dorsal thoraco-abdominal junction of ditrysian Lepidoptera (Insecta). Zoomorphology, 119 (3): 163-183.pdf
• Minet, J. (1991). Tentative reconstruction of the ditrysian phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Glossata). Entomologica Scandinavica, 22: 69-95.

Sources

• Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002

External links

• Tree of Life
• Wikispecies