''Scythris curlettii'' 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

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

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, the

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and

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

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