Musotiminae
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.174564 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6263842 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/273CDF1D-1F16-C346-FEA8-FA375E39F8C2 |
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Musotiminae |
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The world fauna of this small subfamily of delicate moths includes some 166 species ( Heppner 1991) distributed in the New World from the southern United States to Argentina, and in the Old World Tropics to South Africa, Siberia, Japan, New Zealand, Micronesia, and Samoa ( Munroe and Solis 1998). The New World fauna includes 82 species in nine genera ( Munroe 1995; Phillips and Solis 1996; Solis et al. 2005). The larvae feed on ferns, including Cyathea ( Phillips and Solis 1996) .
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Acentropinae |
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