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Dudgeonea is a small genus of moths and the only genus of its family, the Dudgeoneidae. It includes six species distributed sparsely across the Old World from Africa and Madagascar to Australia and New Guinea.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyDudgeoneidae
Observations recorded119

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
17
Family
Dudgeoneidae
Collections
USNM, QM
Recorded in
Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Australia

Wikidata facts

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taxon
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taxon name
Dudgeonea
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Lepidoptera
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Encyclopedic overview

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Dudgeonea is a small genus of moths and the only genus of its family, the Dudgeoneidae. It includes six species distributed sparsely across the Old World from Africa and Madagascar to Australia and New Guinea.

==Biology== The genus is poorly studied, but the Australian species, Dudgeonea actinias, tunnels in trunks of Canthium attenuatum (Rubiaceae) and the pupa is extruded like many other internal feeders.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dudgeonea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.