An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada
Pohl, Greg
Anweiler, Gary
Schmidt, Christian
Kondla, Norbert
ZooKeys
2010
2010-03-05
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75C
753499
[184,326,1363,1390]
Insecta
Bedelliidae
Animalia
Lepidoptera
64
65
Arthropoda
family
Small (approximately 10 mmwingspan) moths with narrow lanceolate wings. Adults have a tuft of scales on the vertex, and a dense pecten of scales on the antennal scape, not quite forming an eye cap, as in the Lyonetiidae. They are differentiated from other yponomeutoid families by internal and wing venation characters. Larvae are leafminers. Until recently this group was treated as a subfamily within the Lyonetiidae; we follow Dugdale et al. (1999) in treating it at the family level. Eighteen species of Bedelliidaeare known worldwide, all in the genus Bedellia. Fourteen of these are restricted to Hawaii, and two species are known from continental North America; one of the latter has re- cently been found in AB. Th ere is no recent species-level taxonomic work on the group, but the AB species was illustrated by Parenti (2000)and Powell and Opler (2009). 124 * R Bedellia somnulentella(Zeller, 1847) Aug– b g T: Parenti (2000), Powell and Opler (2009) L: None C: CNC