Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Atteva Walker, 1854 . List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 2 : 526.

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
YPONOMEUTOIDEA : YPONOMEUTIDAE : ATTEVINAE

Type-species:
Atteva niveigutta Walker , 1854 List Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 2 : 526. .

Type-species designation:
by monotypy

Notes:
Atteva Meyrick, 1905 was referred to the Yponomeutidae, Attevinae by Heppner, 1984, 36 Yponomeutidae, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist : Part 1. Micropterigoidea-Immoidea, p.55.

Atteva was treated in the Yponomeutidae in Nye and Fletcher 1991, 6 : 38.

ATTEVA was included within the subfamily YPONOMEUTIDAE: ATTEVINAE by Dugdale et al., in Kristensen (1999).

Junior name(s):
Scintilla Guenée, 1879: 287.