Depressariidae
Appearance
Depressariidae | |
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Agonopterix senicionella | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Gelechioidea |
Family: | Depressariidae Meyrick, 1883 |
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Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2300 species worldwide.[1]
Subfamilies
Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies:
- Acriinae
- Aeolanthinae
- Cryptolechiinae
- Depressariinae
- Ethmiinae
- Hypercalliinae
- Hypertrophinae
- Oditinae
- Peleopodinae
- Stenomatinae
References
- ^ Heikkilä, M. et al. 2014: Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera). Cladistics, 30(6): 563-589. doi:10.1111/cla.12064
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