Sole genus of moth suborder Heterobathmiina
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).
A possible fossil member of the family, "Preheterobathmia" is known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar.
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