Dudgeoneidae, Berger, 1958

Ahmad, Jalil, Joshi, Rahul & Singh, Navneet, 2023, An updated Catalogue of Cossoidea (Lepidoptera) from India, Zootaxa 5330 (3), pp. 301-348 : 305

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3FBFCEB8-4DA2-459B-A668-A35D2EA249F9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8257615
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F59D07-FFD1-3A29-FF10-FE3B54C65463
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Dudgeoneidae
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Family Dudgeoneidae View in CoL View at ENA

Adults are medium sized (with wingspan of 28–72 mm), antennae are unipectinate or rarely bipectinate to tip in both sexes, forewing with reddish brown with circular, silvery white spots ( Edwards et al. 1999). Globally, the family comprises 57 species in six genera (Nieukerken et al. 2011) with most of the species reported from Australian and Ethiopian region ( Schulze & Fiedler, 1996). In India, the family is known by a single species only.