NOMINA CIRCUMSCRIBENTIA INSECTORUM

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Typified names:

Frenatae Comstock 1892

NOMEN: Frenatae Comstock 1892 [J.H. Comstock. The descent of the Lepidoptera. An application of the theory of natural selection to taxonomy. In: Putham F.W. (ed.). Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 41st Meeting. Salem Press Publishing, 1892, 41: 199-201]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Comstock 1892): ?

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:

= Anisoneuria Karsch 1898 

= Heteroneura Tillyard 1917 (non Brauer 1885)

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Papilio/fg (sine Hepialus; incl. Nepticula, Adela)

TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: 

MODERN STATUS:  the valid, the oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position and classification of Frenatae:

Neolepidoptera
  Exoporia
    Mnesarchaea/fg
    Macrojugatae
 
Frenatae
 
  Adela/fg
   
Nannoleptera
 
 
Dirtysia