Heterobathmia
Sole genus of moth suborder Heterobathmiina
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Heterobathmia is a genus of Lepidoptera. It is the only genus in the suborder Heterobathmiina, as well as in the superfamily Heterobathmioidea and in the family Heterobathmiidae. Primitive, day-flying, metallic moths confined to southern South America, the adults eat the pollen of Nothofagus or southern beech and the larvae mine the leaves (Kristensen, 1983, 1999). Most known species are undescribed (but see Kristensen and Nielsen, 1978, 1998).
| Heterobathmia | |
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| Heterobathmia pseuderiocrannia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Suborder: | Heterobathmiina Kristensen & Nielsen, 1983 |
| Superfamily: | Heterobathmioidea Kristensen & Nielsen, 1979 |
| Family: | Heterobathmiidae Kristensen & Nielsen, 1979 |
| Genus: | Heterobathmia Kristensen & Nielsen, 1979 |
| Species | |
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Heterobathmia diffusa | |
| Diversity | |
| About 10 species, but only 3 described | |
A possible fossil member of the family, Preheterobathmia is known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar.[1]
