Gracillarioidea

Taxobox
name = Gracillarioidea

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Caloptilia cuculipennella" (Hübner, 1796)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
superordo = Amphiesmenoptera
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Glossata
infraordo = Heteroneura
unranked_familia = Ditrysia
superfamilia = Gracillarioidea
diversity = Over 2300 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
*Roeslerstammiidae
*Douglasiidae
*Bucculatricidae
*Gracillariidae

Gracillarioidea is a large superfamily containing four families of insects in the order Lepidoptera. These generally small moths are miners in plant tissue as caterpillars. There are about 113 described genera distributed worldwide, the most commonly encountered of which are leaf-miners in the family Gracillariidae.

References

*Davis, D.R, and Robinson, G.S. (1999). The Tineoidea and Gracillarioidea. In: Kristensen, N.P. (ed.), "Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies, 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography". Handbuch der Zoologie 4 (35): 91-117. Walter de Gruyter. Berlin, New York.

External links

* [http://tolweb.org/Gracillarioidea Tree of Life]