Taxonavigation

Familia: Gracillariidae
Subfamiliae: Acrocercopinae – Gracillariinae – Lithocolletinae – Marmarinae – Oecophyllembiinae – Ornixolinae – Parornichinae  – Phyllocnistinae

Name

Gracillariidae Stainton, 1854.

Note:

• The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1970, Bulletin of zoological Nomenclature 27 (Opinion 912): 27, placed Gracillariidae Stainton, 1854, on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, and at the same time placed Gracilariidae Stainton, 1854, as an incorrect original spelling, on the Official List of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology.

References

• Bai, H. & H.H. Li, 2009: Review of Spulerimx (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from China, with description of three new species. Oriental Insects 43: 33–44.

• Bai, H-Y., Xu J-S. & Dai, X-H. 2016. Two new and one newly recorded species of Gracillariidae from China (Lepidoptera). ZooKeys 559: 139–150. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.559.6812. Reference page. 
• Davis, D.R. , F. Mc Kay , M. Oleiro, Marcelo Diniz Vitorino & G.S. Wheeler, 2011: Biology and systematics of the leafmining Gracillariidae of Brazilian Pepper Tree, Schinus terebinthifolus Raddi, with descriptions of a new genus and four new species. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 65 (2): 61–93.
• Davis, Donald R. & Paul A. Opler, 1981. The Leafmining Moths of the genus Cameraria associated with Fagaceae in California (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 333: 1–58. Full article:

• de Prins, J., Brito, R. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2016. An annotated taxonomic checklist of the Neotropical Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) with links to the information on host plants and parasitoids. Zootaxa 4158(1): 1–51. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.1.1. Reference page. 

• Espinoza-Donoso, S., Gonçalves, G.L., Vargas, H.A. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2022. Atacamaptilia ambrosiavora gen. et sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), a leaf miner of Ambrosia cumanensis (Asteraceae) in the Atacama Desert. Zootaxa 5100(3): 401–418. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.3.5. . Reference page. 

• Huemer, P., Triberti, P. & Lopez-Vaamonde, C. 2016. A new genus and species of leaf-mining moth from the French Alps, Mercantouria neli gen. n., sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae). ZooKeys 586: 145–162. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.586.8375. Reference page. 

• Kawahara, A.Y., Ohshima, I., Kawakita, A.W., Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Cummings, M.P., Davis, D.R., Wagner, D.L., de Prins, J. & Lopez-Vaamonde, C. 2011. Increased gene sampling strengthens support for higher-level groups within leaf-mining moths and relatives (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 182. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-182 Reference page. 

• Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Ohshima, I., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Houlihan, P.R., Breinholt, J.W., Kawakita, A., Xiao, L., Regier, J.C., Davis, D.R., Kumata, T., Sohn, J.C., de Prins, J. & Mitter, C. 2017. A molecular phylogeny and revised higher-level classification for the leaf-mining moth family Gracillariidae and its implications for larval host-use evolution. Systematic Entomology 42, 60–81. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12210 Reference page. 
• Kobayashi, S. ; G.-H. Huang ; A. Nakamura & T. Hirowatari, 2013: Four new species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from China and Japan, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis, Eumetriochroa, Guttigera and Metriochroa. Zootaxa 3619 (2): 101–129. Preview and full article: DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.2.1
• Kumata, T., 1995: SOME SPECIES OF THE SUBFAMILY LITHOCOLLETINAE [GRACILLARIIDAE, LEPIDOPTERA] COLLECTED IN THE PHILIPPINES. Insecta Matsumurana New Series 52: 105–131. Full article: .
• Kumata, T., 1995: KETAPANGIA, A NEW GENUS FOR MACAROSTOLA LEUCOCHORDA AND ACROCERCOPS REGULIFERA [GRACILLARIIDAE, LEPIDOPTERA]. Insecta Matsumurana 52: 133–148. Full article: .
• Kumata, T., 1998: JAPANESE SPECIES OF THE SUBFAMILY OECOPHYLLEMBIINAE RÉAL ET BALACHOWSKY (LEPIDOPTERA : GRACILLARIIDAE), WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF A NEW GENUS AND EIGHT NEW SPECIES. Insecta Matsumurana New Series 54: 77–131. Full article: .
• Kuznetzov, V.I. & S.V. Baryshnikova, 2001: Review of the Palaearctic genera of the family Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) with description of a new subfamily Ornixolinae Kuznetzov et Baryshnikova, subfam. n. Entomological Review 81 (1): 26–46.
• Mundaca, E.A. ; L.E. Parra & H.E. Vargas, 2013: A new genus and species of leaf miner (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae) for Chile associated to the native tree Lithraea caustica. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 57 (2): 157–164. Full article: .
• de Prins, W. & de Prins, J., 2005, World Catalogue of Insects: Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) volume 6: 502 pp.
• 2011: Zootaxa, 2892: 25–32. Preview

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