Idioglossa

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Genus of moths

title: "Idioglossa" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["epimarptidae"] description: "Genus of moths" topic_path: "general/epimarptidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioglossa" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of moths ::

| image = Pl.1-01-Idioglossa argodora Meyrick, 1913.jpg | image_caption = Idioglossa argodora | taxon = Idioglossa | authority = Walsingham, 1881 | range_map = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms =

  • Idiostoma Walsingham, 1882
  • Metamorpha Frey & Boll, 1878

Idioglossa is a genus of moths of the family Epimarptidae, it was previously part of Batrachedridae or others (see below).

Taxonomy

The genus was created by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham in 1881 to house the new species Idioglossa bigemma. As Lord Walsingham created it under a then monotypic genus, the species I. bigemma is considered the type species by monotypy. The next year (1882), Lord Walsingham proposed to rename the taxon as Idiostoma, as he considered his previous name inappropriate, but by the rules of nomenclature this later suggested amendment is unnecessary.

The Australian entomologist Ian Common classified it in the subfamily Stathmopodinae of the family Oecophoridae in 1996. It was reclassified in the subfamily Batrachedrinae of the Batrachedridae by Kazuhiro Sugisima in 2000 when another species was described. Subsequently, it was included in Epimarptidae Meyrick, 1914.{{cite journal|last1=Wang|first1=Q.-Y.|last2=Li|first2=H.-H. |year=2020|title=Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera), with an exploratory application on geometric morphometrics|journal=Zoologica Scripta |volume=49|issue=3|pages=307-328}} Later, the geographic range of the genus was expanded to include Thailand. Another of the included species is known from the Southeastern United States.

Species

The genus contains the following species:

Ecology

Of the species of which a host plant is known, the caterpillars feed on plants of the families Costaceae, Gramineae or Commelinaceae.

References

References

  1. Savela, Markku. (9 November 2018). "''Idioglossa''".
  2. . (8 March 2012). ["Genus ''Idioglossa'' Walsingham, 1881"](https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Idioglossa). *Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy*.
  3. Common, Ian Francis Bell. (1996). "Oecophoridae in Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia". Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera.
  4. Sugisima, Kazuhiro. (2000). "A new species of a gelechioid genus, ''Idioglossa'' Walsingham (Lepidoptera, Batrachedridae, Batrachedrinae), from Japan". Lepidoptera Science.
  5. Sugisima, K.. (2004). "A new ''Idioglossa'' species (Lepidoptera, Batrachedridae, Batrachedrinae) from Thailand". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan.
  6. Kaila, L.. (2023). "Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico". Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
  7. [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/hostplants/search/list.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&Familyqtype=starts+with&Family=&PFamilyqtype=starts+with&PFamily=&Genusqtype=starts+with&Genus=Idiogloss&PGenusqtype=starts+with&PGenus=&Speciesqtype=starts+with&Species=&PSpeciesqtype=starts+with&PSpecies=&Country=&sort=Family HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants]

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epimarptidae