Comments on the classification and phylogeny of broad-winged moths (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae sensu lato)

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Author: A.L. Lvovsky
Date: May 2012
From: Entomological Review(Vol. 92, Issue 2)
Publisher: Springer
Document Type: Article
Length: 7,175 words
Lexile Measure: 1240L

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The broad-winged moths (Oecophoridae sensu lato) belong to the family complex Gelechiiformes with 4 (Kuznetzov and Stekolnikov, 2001) or 6 (Sinev, 1992) superfamilies. The classification of these moths was rather constant in the XX century, but at the turn of the century most researchers concluded that broad-winged moths in the traditional sense (Oecophoridae sensu lato) were a polyphyletic group and that a major revision of their classification was necessary. Many classifications of these families have been proposed recently (Common, 1990; Minet, 1990; Scoble, 1992; Sinev, 1992; Leraut, [1993], 1997; Heppner, 1998; Hodges, 1999; Kuznetzov and Stekolnikov, 2001; Lvovsky, 2002; Kaila, 2004; Bucheli and Wenzel, 2005). This communication presents one more classification variant, based on analysis of the results of the preceding researchers and personal views of the author. DOI: 10.1134/S001387381202008X
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