Bedelliidae
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Bedelliidae is a small family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of small, narrow-winged moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

s; most authorities recognize just a single genus, Bedellia, previously included in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed apices noticeably up- or down-turned. The larvae are leaf miners.The families Bucculatricidae...

. The family is still included in the Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed apices noticeably up- or down-turned. The larvae are leaf miners.The families Bucculatricidae...

 as the subfamily Bedelliinae by some authors.

Species

Scientific Name Common Name Synonyms Larval Food Plant
Bedellia boehmeriella
Bedellia boehmeriella
Bedellia boehmeriella is a moth of the Bedelliidae family. It is endemic to Oahu.The larvae feed on Boehmeria grandis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Full-grown larvae are about 6 mm long. When full-grown the larva emerges from the leaf and pupates on the under side of the leaf beside a...

Boehmeria grandis
Boehmeria
Boehmeria is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to Asia and North America. The species include herbaceous perennials, shrubs and small trees. Although related to nettles, this genus does not have stinging hairs...

Bedellia cathareuta
Bedellia cathareuta
Bedellia cathareuta is a moth of the Bedelliidae family. It is known from South Africa....

Meyrick, 1911
Bedellia ehikella
Bedellia ehikella
Bedellia ehikella is a moth in the Bedelliidae family. It is found in Ukraine, Spain, Sardinia, Italy, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.Adults are on wing from late March to mid-May and again from July to September in Ukraine....

(Szöcs, 1967)
Bedellia enthrypta Porana paniculata
Bedellia luridella Müller-Rutz, 1922
Bedellia minor Ipomoea
Ipomoea
Ipomoea is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 500 species. Most of these are called "morning glories", but this can refer to related genera also. Those formerly separated in Calonyction are called "moonflowers"...

Bedellia oplismeniella
Bedellia oplismeniella
Bedellia oplismeniella is a moth of the Bedelliidae family. It is endemic to Oahu and possibly Molokai and Hawaii.The larvae feed on Oplismenus compositus and Panicum torridum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is usually positioned lengthwise in the leaf, widening as the larvae...

Oplismenus compositus
Oplismenus
Oplismenus is a small genus of annual or perennial grasses found in tropical Asia and extending down through South East Asia into Australia. Scholz, who studied the genus throughout the world, recognized nine species and 18 infraspecific taxa. An English translation of her work is available at...

, Panicum torridum
Panicum
Panicum is a large genus of about 450 species of grasses native throughout the tropical regions of the world, with a few species extending into the northern temperate zone...

Bedellia orchilella
Bedellia orchilella
The Hawaiian Sweetpotato Leaf Miner is a moth of the Bedelliidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii....

Ipomoea batatas, Solanum melongena
Bedellia psamminella
Bedellia silvicolella
Bedellia silvicolella
Bedellia silvicolella is a moth in the Bedelliidae family. It is endemic to the Canary Islands.The larvae feed on Convolvulus canariensis and Convolvulus floridus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a slender corridor with a thick, central frass line that sometimes...

Klimesch, 1968
Bedellia somnulentella
Bedellia somnulentella
The Sweet Potato Leaf Miner is a moth in the Bedelliidae family. It has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution and has been recorded from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, southern Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Uzbekistan, nearly all of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Japan, North America, Australia, New...

(Zeller, 1847)
Sweet Potato Leaf Miner Bedellia ipomoeae Betula papyrifera, Calystegia sepium
Calystegia sepium
Calystegia sepium is a species of bindweed, with a subcosmopolitan distribution throughout temperate Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, northwestern Africa, and North America, and in the temperate Southern Hemisphere in Australia, and...

, Convolvulus
Convolvulus
Convolvulus is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include bindweed and morning glory, both names shared with other closely related genera....

, Ipomoea
Ipomoea
Ipomoea is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 500 species. Most of these are called "morning glories", but this can refer to related genera also. Those formerly separated in Calonyction are called "moonflowers"...

, Salix, Sisymbrium irio, Solanum melongena
Bedellia spectrodes Meyrick, 1931
Bedellia struthionella
Bedellia struthionella
Bedellia struthionella is a moth of the Bedelliidae family. It is endemic to Oahu and Hawaii.The larvae feed on Panicum torridum. They mine the leaves of their host plant.-External links:*...

Panicum torridum
Panicum
Panicum is a large genus of about 450 species of grasses native throughout the tropical regions of the world, with a few species extending into the northern temperate zone...

Bedellia terenodes Ipomoea
Ipomoea
Ipomoea is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 500 species. Most of these are called "morning glories", but this can refer to related genera also. Those formerly separated in Calonyction are called "moonflowers"...

Bedellia yasumatsui
Bedellia yasumatsui
Bedellia yasumatsui is a moth in the Bedelliidae family. It is known from Australia and Papua New Guinea.The larvae have been recorded on Ipomoea species. They mine the leaves of their host plant.-External links:*...

Kuroko, 1972

External links

  • Microleps U.S.A. (Nearctic)
  • Japmoth Images of imagines
    Imago
    In biology, the imago is the last stage of development of an insect, after the last ecdysis of an incomplete metamorphosis, or after emergence from the pupa where the metamorphosis is complete...

    , larva and pupa.
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