Incurvariidae

Incurvariidae
	Female Incurvaria masculella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Superfamily:	Incurvarioidea
Family:	Incurvariidae; Spuler, 1898
Genera
	Alloclemensia; Basileura; Crinopteryx (disputed); Incurvaria; Paraclemensia; Perthida; Phylloporia; Procacitas; Protaephagus; ?Rhathamictis; Simacauda; Subclemensia; Tridentaforma; Vespina; †Incurvarites; †Prophalonia
Diversity
	11 genera and 51 species

Incurvariidae is a family of small primitive monotrysian moths in the order Lepidoptera. There are twelve genera recognised (Davis, 1999). Many species are leaf miners^[2] and much is known of their host plants, excluding Paraclemensia acerifoliella.^[3] The most familiar species in Europe are perhaps Incurvaria masculella^[4] and Phylloporia bistrigella.^[5] The narrow wings are held tightly along the body at rest and some species have very long antennae.

References

Davis, D.R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Ch. 6, pp. 65–90 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.

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