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Family of moths
The Momphidae , or mompha moths , is a family of
moths with some 115 described species.
[2] It was described by
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1857. These moths tend to be rather small with a
wingspan of up to 21 mm. The wings are held folded over the body at rest. The
larvae are concealed feeders, either as
leaf miners or within seeds or stems.
Genera
Anchimompha Clarke, 1965
Batrachedrodes
Zimmerman , 1978
Desertidacna Sinev, 1988
Gracilosia Sinev, 1989
Inflataria Sinev, 1989
Licmocera Walsingham, 1891
Mompha Hübner, [1825]
Moriloma Busck, 1912
Palaeomystella T. B. Fletcher, 1940
Patanotis Meyrick, 1913
Phalaritica Meyrick, 1913
Semeteria Sinev, 1989
Synallagma Engel, 1907
Zapyrastra Meyrick, 1889
Former genera
References
H e t e r o n e u r a
M o n o t r y s i a
D i t r y s i a
Simaethistoidea
Tineoidea
Gracillarioidea
Yponomeutoidea
Gelechioidea
Galacticoidea
Zygaenoidea
Cossoidea
Sesioidea
Choreutoidea
Tortricoidea
Urodoidea
Schreckensteinioidea
Epermenioidea
Alucitoidea
Pterophoroidea
Whalleyanoidea
Immoidea
Copromorphoidea
Thyridoidea
Calliduloidea
Papilionoidea (
butterflies )
Hyblaeoidea
Pyraloidea
Mimallonoidea
Lasiocampoidea
Bombycoidea
Noctuoidea
Erebidae (underwing, tiger, tussock, litter, snout, owlet moths)
Euteliidae
Noctuidae (daggers, sallows, owlet moths, quakers, cutworms, darts)
Nolidae (tuft moths)
Notodontidae (prominents, kittens)
Oenosandridae
Drepanoidea
Geometroidea Superfamily unassigned