568 



TINEINA 



[SCIAPTERON 



Essex, scarce or a casual immigrant only ; Europe, Syria ; 

 6, 7. Larva in steins and roots of poplar ; 9-5 



2. GELECHIADAE. 



Head smooth. Tongue developed. Antennae J--J-, in <$ 

 simple or shortly ciliated, basal joint usually without pecten. 

 Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, terminal joint pointed, 

 usually slender and very acute. Maxillary palpi very short, 

 appressed. Posterior tibiae usually more or less rough-haired. 

 Forewings : Ib furcate, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa or rarely 

 to apex. Hind wings sometimes over 1, more or less trapezoidal, 

 termen usually sinuate or emarginate ; all veins present, 6 and 

 7 usually stalked or approximated at base, 8 more or less 

 distinctly connected with cell in middle. 



An extremely large family, dominant almost throughout the 

 globe, but not numerous in New Zealand. It is almost always 

 recognisable by the peculiar form of the hindwings, which in 

 their more characteristic developments are different from those 

 of any other Lepidoptera, or indeed any other insects. The 

 earliest genera, which have simply elongate -ovate hindwings, 

 approximate to the Oecophoridae, but can be separated from 

 them by 6 and 7 not being parallel. 



Larva with 10 prolegs, rarely almost apodal ; usually feeding 

 amongst spun leaves or shoots, sometimes in seed-heads or roots, 

 seldom mining or case-bearing. Pupa with segments 9-11 free ; 

 not protruded from cocoon in emergence. 



The phylogeny of the leading genera is given in the 

 diagram. 



PHYLOGENY OF GELECHIADAE 



Parasia Paltodora 



I I 



Ptochemusa 



Aristotelia Stenolechia Aphanaula Anacampsis Acanthophila 



I | I ! I 



Gelechia Psoricoptera Brachmia 



I ! 



Reciirvaria 



I 

 Ypsolophus Auarsia 



~T~ 



Symmoca 



