''Cacochroa'' 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 ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of the

superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

Gelechioidea __NOTOC__ Gelechioidea (from the type genus '' Gelechia'', "keeping to the ground") is the superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. It is a large ...

Taxonomy

The

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placement is problematic due to insufficient research. Formerly, it was often placed in

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...

Orophiini The Cryptolechiinae are a subfamily of small moths in the family Depressariidae. Taxonomy and systematics *'' Acryptolechia'' Lvovsky, 2010 *'' Cryptolechia'' Zeller, 1852 *''Orophia'' Hübner, 825/small> *''Cacochroa ''Cacochroa'' is a moth g ...

of subfamily

Oecophorinae __NOTOC__ The Oecophorinae are the nominate subfamily of moths in the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). They are part of the insufficiently studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and like their relatives, the circumscription of this taxon is d ...

, in particular in older treatments it is variously placed in a distinct tribe

Cacochroini The Cryptolechiinae are a subfamily of small moths in the family Depressariidae. Taxonomy and systematics *'' Acryptolechia'' Lvovsky, 2010 *'' Cryptolechia'' Zeller, 1852 *''Orophia'' Hübner, 825/small> *''Cacochroa ''Cacochroa'' is a moth g ...

and/or assigned to subfamily Depressariinae (treated as a subfamily of the

Elachistidae The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and c ...

). It is now placed in the independent family

Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.Heikkilä, M. ''et al''. 2014: Morphology reinforces proposed mo ...

Species

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Cacochroa corfuella ''Cacochroa corfuella'' is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Greece (it was described from Corfu Corfu (, ) or Kerkyra ( el, Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, , ; ; la, Corcyra.) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian ...

'' Lvovsky, 2000 *''

Cacochroa permixtella ''Cacochroa permixtella'' is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in the Mediterranean Region. Biology The caterpillars feed on ''Phillyrea angustifolia'' and ''Phillyrea latifolia''. They initially mine the leaves of their host pl ...

'' (Herrich-Schaffer, 1854)

References

Cryptolechiinae Moth genera {{Cryptolechiinae-stub