| Monotrysia | |
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| Cuckoo flower longhorn moth, Cauchas rufimitrella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
| (unranked): | Monotrysia |
| Superfamilies | |
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Monotrysia (Börner, 1939) | |
The Monotrysia are a group of moths in the lepidopteran order, not currently considered to be a natural group or clade.[1] The group is so named because the female has a single genital opening for mating and laying eggs, in contrast to the rest of the Lepidoptera (Ditrysia), which have two female reproductive openings.[1][2] Later classifications used Monotrysia in a narrower sense for the nonditrysian Heteroneura, but this group was also found to be paraphyletic with respect to Ditrysia.[1][3] Apart from the recently discovered family Andesianidae,[3][4] most of the group consists of small, relatively understudied species.
- ^ a b c Kristensen, Neils P.; Scoble, Malcolm J; Karsholt, Ole (2007). "Lepidoptera phylogeny and systematics: the state of inventorying moth and butterfly diversity" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1668: 699–747. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.30.
- ^ Dugdale, J.S. (1974). Female genital classification in the classification of Lepidoptera. New Zealand Journal of Entomology, 1(2): 127-146. pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Davis, D. R. (1986). "A new family of monotrysian moths from austral South America (Lepidoptera: Palaephatidae), with a phylogenetic review of the Monotrysia". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 434: 1–202.
- ^ Davis, D. R. and Gentili, P. (2003). Andesianidae, a new family of monotrysian moths (Lepidoptera: Andesianoidea) from South America. Invertebrate Systematics, 17: 15-26.Abstract