{{short description|Group of moths}} {{Automatic Taxobox | image = Cauchas rufimitrella female.jpg | image_caption = Cuckoo flower longhorn moth, ''Cauchas rufimitrella'' | taxon = Monotrysia | subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies | subdivision = '''Monotrysia''' <small>(Börner, 1939)</small> *Adeloidea *Andesianoidea *Palaephatoidea *Tischerioidea *Nepticuloidea }}
The '''Monotrysia''' are a group of moths in the lepidopteran order, not currently considered to be a natural group or clade.<ref name=Kristensen2007>{{cite journal |last1=Kristensen |first1=Neils P. |last2= Scoble |first2=Malcolm J |last3=Karsholt |first3=Ole |year=2007 |title=Lepidoptera phylogeny and systematics: the state of inventorying moth and butterfly diversity |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1668 |pages=699–747 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.30 |url=https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p747.pdf }}</ref> 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.<ref name=Kristensen2007/><ref>Dugdale, J.S. (1974). Female genital classification in the classification of Lepidoptera. ''New Zealand Journal of Entomology'', '''1'''(2): 127-146. [http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjz/1974/12.pdf pdf]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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.<ref name=Kristensen2007/><ref name=Davis1986/> Apart from the recently discovered family Andesianidae,<ref name=Davis1986>{{cite journal |last=Davis |first=D. R. |year=1986 |title=A new family of monotrysian moths from austral South America (Lepidoptera: Palaephatidae), with a phylogenetic review of the Monotrysia. |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology |volume=434 |pages=1-202 |url=https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/5497}}</ref><ref>Davis, D. R. and Gentili, P. (2003). Andesianidae, a new family of monotrysian moths (Lepidoptera: Andesianoidea) from South America. ''Invertebrate Systematics'', '''17''': 15-26.[http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IS02006.htm Abstract]</ref> most of the group consists of small, relatively understudied species.
==See also== * {{section link|Lepidoptera#History of study}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *Davis D. R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Pages 65–90 in: Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Part 35. N. P. Kristensen, ed. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York.
== External links == *[http://tolweb.org/Neolepidoptera/11719 Neolepidoptera]
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