Musotiminae

Landry, Bernard & Roque-Albelo, Lazaro, 2006, The Acentropinae and Musotiminae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Zootaxa 1354, pp. 45-56 : 47

Musotiminae

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) .