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
[edit]- Eriocottinae Spuler, 1898
- Crepidochares Meyrick, 1922
- Dacryphanes Meyrick, 1908
- Deuterotinea Rebel, 1901
- Eriocottis Zeller, 1847
- Tetracladessa Gozmány & Vári, 1975
- Compsocteninae Dierl, 1970
- Cathalistis Meyrick, 1917
- Compsoctena Zeller, 1852
- Filiramifera Mey, 2019
- Kruegerellus Mey & Sobczyk, 2019
- Eocompsoctena Ngo-Muller, Engel, Nel, & Nel, 2020
- Eucryptogona Lower, 1901
- Picrospora Meyrick, 1912
Former genera
[edit]- Picrospora (transferred to Psychidae, but see Mey, 2011, for placement in Eriocottidae)
References
[edit]- ^ "Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
- ^ "Tineoidea". Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2007-01-24.
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