Flower moths
Adult Scythris scopolella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Infraorder: Heteroneura
Clade: Eulepidoptera
Clade: Ditrysia
Clade: Apoditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Scythrididae
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)
  4. ^ KARI NUPPONEN & AIDAS SALDAITIS (March 2013). "Recent records of scythridids from the islands of Socotra and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea, Scythrididae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3626 (2): 288–294. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3626.2.6. PMID 26176138. S2CID 19888101. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-03.

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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