Eriocottidae
Appearance
Eriocottidae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Clade: | Neolepidoptera |
Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
Clade: | Eulepidoptera |
Clade: | Ditrysia |
Superfamily: | Tineoidea |
Family: | Eriocottidae Spuler, 1898 |
Diversity[1] | |
About 6 genera and 80 species | |
Synonyms | |
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Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths[2] is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae.
Systematics
- Eriocottinae
- Compsocteninae Dierl, 1970
Former genera
- Picrospora (transferred to Psychidae)
References
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