Phiditia

For the common meals/democratic assemblies in Sparta, see Syssitia.

Phiditia is a genus of moths of the family Phiditiidae erected by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1883.

Phiditia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Bombycoidea
Family:	Phiditiidae
Genus:	Phiditia Möschler, 1883[1]
Type species
Phalaena diores Cramer, 1775

Taxonomy

The genus was treated in the Lymantriidae by Allan Watson, David Stephen Fletcher and I. W. B. Nye in 1980. It was later transferred to the Apatelodidae by Joël Minet in 1986. Minet designated it as the type genus for the new subfamily Phiditiinae,^[2] which was elevated to family level in 2011.^[3]

Species

• Phiditia cuprea (Kaye, 1901)
• Phiditia diores (Cramer, 1775)
• Phiditia lucernaria (Walker, 1866)
• Phiditia maculosa Dognin, 1916
• Phiditia minor Schaus, 1924
• Phiditia scriptigera (Dognin, 1916)