Palaeosetidae

Palaeosetidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Clade:	Myoglossata
Clade:	Neolepidoptera
Infraorder:	Exoporia
Superfamily:	Hepialoidea
Family:	Palaeosetidae
Genera and species
	Palaeoses Turner, 1922 Palaeoses scholastica Turner, 1922; ; Genustes Issiki and Stringer, 1932 Genustes lutata Issiki and Stringer, 1932; ; Ogygioses Issiki and Stringer, 1932 Ogygioses caliginosa Issiki and Stringer, 1932; Ogygioses eurata Issiki and Stringer, 1932; Ogygioses issikii Davis, 1995; Ogygioses luangensis Kristensen, 1995; ; Osrhoes Druce, 1900 Osrhoes coronta Druce, 1900; ;
Diversity
	4 genera and 7 species

The Palaeosetidae or miniature ghost moths are a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera contained within the superfamily Hepialoidea.

Taxonomy and systematics

The Palaeosetidae are a primitive family of Hepialoidea with four currently recognised genera and seven species.

One genus occurs in Colombia (Osrhoes) and the other three genera have an Old World distribution from Assam to Australia.^[1]^[2]

^ Kristensen, N.P., (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41-62 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
^ Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) Journal of Natural History, 34(6): 823-878.Abstract

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