Simaethistoidea
Sign in to saveSimaethistoidea is an obscure superfamily of pyralid-like moths with two genera, whose biology and relationships among the Ditrysia is currently unknown, namely the Australian Metaprotus (2 species)[https://web.archive.org/web/20060903181504/http://www.ento.csiro.au/gallery/moths/Metaprotusmagnifica and the China and North Indian Simaethistis (2 species) (Dugdale et al., 1999).
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Vinony's link graph records 161 inbound references to Simaethistoidea, and connects out to butterfly, Pyralidae and Lasiocampidae.
Vinony files it under Ditrysia and Lepidoptera superfamilies.
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- Instance of
- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Apoditrysia
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- taxon name
- Simaethistoidea
- taxon rank
- superfamily
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Simaethistoidea is an obscure superfamily of pyralid-like moths with two genera, whose biology and relationships among the Ditrysia is currently unknown, namely the Australian Metaprotus (2 species)[https://web.archive.org/web/20060903181504/http://www.ento.csiro.au/gallery/moths/Metaprotusmagnifica and the China and North Indian Simaethistis (2 species) (Dugdale et al., 1999).
==Genera and species== Metaprotus Hampson, 1899 Simaethistis Hampson, 1896
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