Talk:Gastridiota

Monotypic taxon
Gastridiota is a monotypic genus. As a result and per WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA, the article should be at the genus-level entry, not species-level as it currently is. Moving the page thusly, but leaving a full message here because of the character limitations of an edit summary. The relevant text of the entry linked above is as follows: "the ranks with identical member organisms should not be separated into different articles, and the article (if there is no common name) should go under the scientific name of lowest rank, but no lower than the monotypic genus."

Sources that outright state Gastridiota to be monotypic:
 * THE EARLY STAGES OF GASTRIDIOTA ADOXIMA (TURNER) (LEPIDOPTERA: BOMBYCOIDEA) AND ITS FAMILY PLACEMENT (PDF) - Abstract: "The monotypic genus Gastridiota Turner is transferred from the Eupterotidae to the Bombycidae."
 * Natural History Museum's Butterflies and Moths of the World - "Type-species designation: by monotypy"

Beyond that, there's a plenitude of sources listing Gastridiota with exactly one species&mdash;G. adoxima&mdash;whereas I have yet to find a single source listing it with multiple species (which would be needed for it to be non-monotypic). A couple of examples: AddWittyNameHere (talk) 19:27, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Funet gives G. adoxima as only species in Gastridiota.
 * Atlas of Living Australia does the same.
 * Boldsystems Taxonomy Browsers does so too.
 * As does Discover Life