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Heterobathmia

Sole genus of moth suborder Heterobathmiina From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Heterobathmia
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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).

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

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