Eriocottidae
Scientific classification Edit this 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
  • Deuterotineidae Zagulajev 1973
  • Compsoctenidae Dierl, 1970
Eriocottidae

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

Former genera

  • Picrospora (transferred to Psychidae, but see Mey, 2011, for placement in Eriocottidae)

References

  1. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera
  2. "Tineoidea".


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