Incurvariidae is a family of small primitive

monotrysia The Monotrysia are a group of moths in the lepidopteran order, not currently considered to be a natural group or clade. The group is so named because the female has a single genital opening for mating and laying eggs, in contrast to the rest of ...

n moths 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 ...

. There are twelve

genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...

recognised (Davis, 1999). Many species are

leaf mine A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, a paraphyletic group which ...

rs and much is known of their host plants, excluding '' Paraclemensia acerifoliella''. The most familiar species in Europe are perhaps '' Incurvaria masculella'' and '' Phylloporia bistrigella''. The narrow wings are held tightly along the body at rest and some species have very long antennae.

References

*Davis, D.R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Ch. 6, pp. 65–90 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.

External links

Tree of Life

Fauna EuropaeaNatural History Museum Hosts databaseAvailable generic names Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-speciesLepIndex list of species and genera in family IncurvariidaeFauna Europaea
* * Moth families {{Incurvarioidea-stub