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Sole genus of moth suborder Heterobathmiina

Heterobathmia
Heterobathmia pseuderiocrannia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: HeterobathmiinaKristensen & Nielsen, 1983
Superfamily: HeterobathmioideaKristensen & Nielsen, 1979
Family: HeterobathmiidaeKristensen & Nielsen, 1979
Genus: _Heterobathmia_Kristensen & Nielsen, 1979
Species
Heterobathmia diffusa Heterobathmia pseuderiocrania Heterobathmia valvifer
Diversity
About 10 species, but only 3 described

Heterobathmia is a genus of Lepidoptera. It is the only genus in the suborder Heterobathmiina, as well as in the superfamily Heterobathmioidea and in the family Heterobathmiidae. Primitive, day-flying, metallic moths confined to southern South America, the adults eat the pollen of Nothofagus or southern beech and the larvae mine the leaves (Kristensen, 1983, 1999). Most known species are undescribed (but see Kristensen and Nielsen, 1978, 1998).

A possible fossil member of the family, Preheterobathmia is known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar.[1]

  1. ^ Mey, Wolfram (2024-01-05). "Preheterobathmia gen. nov. – a new non-glossatan taxon from Myanmar amber tentatively assigned to Heterobathmiidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera)". Nota Lepidopterologica. 47: 1–10. doi:10.3897/nl.47.111080. ISSN 2367-5365.