''Scythris appendicella'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

of the family

Scythrididae Scythrididae (flower moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecopho ...

. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 1997. It is found in

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."''Scythris'' Hübner, [1825]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''.

References

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