Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths
is a
family
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of
insect
Insects (from Latin ') are Hexapoda, hexapod invertebrates of the class (biology), class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (Insect morphology#Head, head, ...
s in the order
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organ ...
whose position relative to other members of the superfamily
Tineoidea
Tineoidea is the ditrysian superfamily of moths that includes clothes moths, bagworms and relatives. There are six families usually included within it, Eriocottidae, Arrhenophanidae, Lypusidae, Acrolophidae, Tineidae and Psychidae, whose r ...
is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae.
Systematics
*Eriocottinae
Spuler, 1898
**''
Crepidochares''
Meyrick, 1922
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Dacryphanes''
Meyrick, 1908
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Deuterotinea''
Rebel, 1901
**''
Eriocottis''
Zeller, 1847
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Tetracladessa''
Gozmány & Vári, 1975
*Compsocteninae
Dierl, 1970
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Cathalistis''
Meyrick, 1917
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Compsoctena''
Zeller, 1852
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Filiramifera''
Mey, 2019
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Kruegerellus''
Mey & Sobczyk, 2019
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Eocompsoctena''
Ngo-Muller, Engel, Nel, & Nel, 2020
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Eucryptogona''
Lower, 1901
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Picrospora''
Meyrick, 1912
Former genera
*''
Picrospora'' (transferred to
Psychidae
The Psychidae (bagworm moths, also simply bagworms or bagmoths) are a family of the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, su ...
, but see Mey, 2011, for placement in Eriocottidae)
References
External links
Tree of LifeNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Moth families
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