A catalogue of the Yponomeutoidea of India (Lepidoptera) Author Joshi, Rahul 0000-0001-8514-1272 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India. joshiarctiidae@gmail.com Author Farooqui, Shahabab A. 0000-0001-7289-5331 Department of Zoology, DAV University, Jalandhar - 144012, Punjab, India. shahababfarooqui@gmail.com Author Singh, Navneet 0000-0002-6657-7983 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India. nsgill007@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2024 2024-06-13 5468 3 468 504 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5468.3.4 journal article 298896 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.3.4 5de431af-4ac9-4314-9921-bf2fe5c1edad 1175-5326 12189239 1395E0E7-5FE3-4F16-863E-B4E12D06C6D0

TABLE 1. Species diversity in the families and subfamilies of Yponomeutoidea globally (according to Sohn et al. 2013, Singh et al. 2024) compared with those in India. ‘‘–’’ indicates absence of families/subfamilies from India, * represents estimated diversity. Numbers shown with slash represents the number of species known from World/ India.

Superfamily	Family	Subfamily	Global	India	Distribution	Resources
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Yponomeutoidea	Yponomeutidae	Yponomeutinae	316	31	Eurasia,	Baseline from
1884/144	335/33				Mexico,	Lewis & Sohn
					South East Asia,	(2015) with
					Cosmopolitan	updates from
					(Except New	Liu & Wang
					Zealand)	(2023), Sohn
						(2018, 2021,
						2023a), Isabel
						& Sohn (2023),
						Cepeda (2018);
						Agassiz (2019)
		Saridoscelinae	19	2	Asia	Lewis & Sohn
						(2015) with
						updates from
						Lu et al. (2023),
						Sohn (2023b)
	Ypsolophidae	Ypsolophinae	169	5	Holarctic,	Baraniak
	192/6				Russia,	(2015), Corley
					Korea, China,	et al. (2019), Jin
					Palearctic,	et al. (2013),
					Oriental	Ponomarenko
						(2015),
						Sachkov &
						Zolotuhin
						(2020), Vargas
						(2018, 2021a)
		Ochsenheimeriinae	23	1	Palaearctic, Old	Davis (1975)
					World, North
					America, India
					(Tehri/Garhwal,
					NW Himalaya)
	Plutellidae		168	14	Widespread,	updates from
	168/14				diamondback	Baraniak &
					moth is	Larsen (2017),
					probably the	Cong et al.
					most widespread	(2016), Huemer
					species	& Sohn (2020),
						Lewis and Sohn
						(2015), Mey
						(2022)
	Glyphipterigidae 531/25	Orthoteliinae	14	–	Palaearctic, Australoceanian
		Glyphipteriginae	425	21	Cosmopolitan	updates from Liu & Li (2014), Lewis & Sohn (2015)
		Acrolepiinae	90	4	Worldwide, with most of the diversity in Palaearctic	updates from Gaedike (2011), Lewis & Sohn (2015)
	Argyresthiidae 211/5		211	5	Nearly cosmopolitan	Gorneau et al. (2023), Li et. al. (2023), Liu et al. (2017), Liu & Li (2022),
	Lyonetiidae 206/28	Lyonetiinae	69	11	Cosmopolitan	Updates from Liu et al. (2023)
		Cemiostominae	103	17	All regions
		unassigned	34
	Attevidae 53/5		53	5	Pantropical	Sohn & Wu (2013)
	Praydidae 64/5		64	5	Old World	Updates from Cong & Li (2017), Liu & Yan (2017)
	Heliodinidae 70/8		70	8	Mainly new world, while a few occur in the Palearctic, Australian regions and India	Vargas (2021b)
	Bedelliidae 16/4		16	4	Widespread except Neotropical
	Scythropiidae 1/-		1	–	European
	Tonzidae 3/1		3	1	Old World Tropics	Kobayashi et al. 2018
	Incertae Sedis 34/10		34*	10	–	Lewis & Sohn (2015)