Monotrysia
Group of moths
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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.
| Monotrysia | |
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| Cuckoo flower longhorn moth, Cauchas rufimitrella | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
| (unranked): | Monotrysia |
| Superfamilies | |
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Monotrysia (Börner, 1939) | |
