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Topic: Mirinidae


  
  ::The Moths of Borneo::
Tongue and frenulum are strong, though ocelli and chaetosemata are absent.
Other bombycoid families are the Australasian Anthelidae and Carthaeidae, the Palaearctic Lemoniidae, Mirinidae (Minet, 1986) and Endromidae, and the New World Oxytenidae and Cercophanidae (allied to Saturniidae), and Apatelodidae.
The South African genus Spiramiopsis Hampson is of uncertain placement, though currently resting in the Bombycidae (Fletcher and Nye, 1982), and has a number of interesting features.
www.arbec.com.my /moths/bombycoidea.php   (1850 words)

  
  Insect Types in the ZFMK Collection, Bonn: Lepidoptera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The present list covers the ‘bombycoid’ families: Brahmaeidae, Eupterotidae, Lasiocampidae, Mirinidae, Saturniidae and Sphingidae; the ‘noctuoid’ families: Arctiidae, Lymantriidae, Noctuidae and Notodontidae; and the Drepanoidea (Drepanidae, including Drepaninae and Thyatirinae).
Eleven families (Arctiidae, Brahmaeidae, Drepanidae, Eupterotidae, Lasiocampidae, Lymantriidae, Mirinidae, Noctuidae, Notodontidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae) have been treated so far.
Bombycoidea (284kb, pdf 31kb), with the families Brahmaeidae, Eupterotidae, Lasiocampidae, Mirinidae, Saturniidae and Sphingidae;
www.museumkoenig.uni-bonn.de /dat/typesZFMK/_typesZFMK_intro_lepidoptera.htm   (687 words)

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