Eudonia | |
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Eudonia angustea imago Oza dos Ríos, Galicia, Spain | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Crambidae |
Subfamily: | Scopariinae |
Genus: | Eudonia Billberg, 1820 |
Type species | |
Phalaena mercurella | |
Diversity | |
About 250 species | |
Synonyms | |
Boiea Zetterstedt, 1839 |
Eudonia is a large and widespread genus in the grass moth family (Crambidae), subfamily Scopariinae. There is no common name for the roughly 250 species placed here; new species are still being described regularly. Although the genus was proposed early in the 19th century, many of these moths were for a long time retained in Scoparia, the type genus of the subfamily and a close relative of Eudonia. A few small genera have been proposed for separation from Eudonia, but given the size of this group this is not particularly convincing;[according to whom?] thus, all are retained here pending a comprehensive phylogenetic review.