Overview
The family Yponomeutidae are known as the ermine , with several hundred species, most of them in the tropics. The larvae tend to form communal webs, and some are minor pests in agriculture, forestry, and horticulture. Some of the adults are very attractive. Adult moths are minor pollinators.
Member species:
- Ailanthus webworm, Atteva punctella
- Spindle Ermine, Yponomeuta cagnagellus.
- Bird-cherry Ermine, Yponomeuta evonymellus.
- Orchard Ermine, Yponomeuta padellus.
- Yponomeuta plumbella.
- Apple Ermine Yponomeuta malinellus
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Taxonomy
The Family Yponomeutidae is a member of the Superfamily Yponomeutoidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Yponomeutidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Butterflies and Moths
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Superfamily: Yponomeutoidea
- Family: Yponomeutidae - Ermine Moths
- Superfamily: Yponomeutoidea
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Butterflies and Moths
- Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Yponomeutidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subfamily (2): Argyresthiinae · Attevinae
- Genus (7): Argyresthia · Atteva · Ethmia · Hofmannia · Pholetesor · Yponomeuta · Ypsolopha
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 764 species and subspecies in the Family Yponomeutidae.
Genera
Argyresthia
Argyresthia is a genus of in the Argyresthiidae family. [more]
Atteva
The Ailanthus webworm, Atteva punctella, is an now found commonly in the United States. [more]
Ethmia
Hofmannia
Pholetesor
Yponomeuta
Ypsolopha
At least 49 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Ypsolopha.
More info about the Genus Ypsolopha may be found here.
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