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Superfamily: Palaephatoidea

Welcome to Dave McCormick's Moth and Butterfly World. Here is information on the Superfamily, Palaephatoidea and its subfamilies.

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This is a family of moths that are known as "Gondwanaland moths" The southern supercontinent Gondwana (originally Gondwanaland) included most of the landmasses in today's southern hemisphere, including Antarctica, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia-New Guinea, and New Zealand, as well as Arabia and the Indian subcontinent, which are in the Northern Hemisphere. The name is derived from the Gondwana region of central northern India (from Sanskrit gondavana 'forest of Gond').

These moths exhibit a disjunct distribution occurring mainly in South America, with four species in eastern Australia and Tasmania and one in South Africa. The larvae spin together leaves of Proteaceae (Ptyssoptera) or Verbenaceae (Azaleodes). Palaephatoidea, a typical monotrysian group, is one two main candidates as the sister group of most of the Lepidoptera, the Ditrysia.

There is 60 known species of moth in this family.

Subfamilies in this Superfamily

Palaephatidae

List of Species We Have Photos and Information On

Other Moths in this Family
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