Scythrididae

Flower moths
Adult Scythris scopolella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
Infraorder: Heteroneura
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Scythrididae (disputed)
Rebel, 1901
Diversity[1]
About 30 genera and 669 species
Synonyms
  • Scythridinae (but see text)
  • Butalidae Heinemann & Wocke, 1876

Scythrididae (flower moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecophoridae as subfamily. Scythrididae adults are smallish to mid-sized moths, which when at rest appear teardrop-shaped.[2]

Selected genera

Genera of Scythrididae (with some notable species also listed) include:[3]

Footnotes

  1. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera
  2. Hodges (1999), Baran (2004), ToL (2009), Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)
  3. Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)

References

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Data related to Scythrididae at Wikispecies See also Gelechioidea Talk page for comparison of some approaches to gelechioid systematics and taxonomy.

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