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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

References

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

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