Tineoidea

Tineoidea
Tineoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Tineoidea
Families

Acrolophidae
Arrhenophanidae
Eriocottidae
Lypusidae
Psychidae
Tineidae
Diversity
4,200 species

Tineoidea is the superfamily of moths that includes clothes moths, bagworms and relatives. There are six families usually included within it[1], Eriocottidae, Arrhenophanidae, Lypusidae, Acrolophidae, Tineidae and Psychidae, whose relationships are currently uncertain.

The Lypusidae, for example, might actually belong to the Gelechioidea.[1]

Sources

  1. ^ Reassessment of the enigmatic Lepidopteran family Lypusidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea; Gelechioidea)
  • Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002


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