Schistonoeidae is a

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moth family, described by Ronald W. Hodges in 1998, in the

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

. It contains one monotypic genus, ''Schistonoea'', described by

William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes (April 23, 1885, Westborough, Westborough, Massachusetts – April 12, 1968, Worcester, Massachusetts) was an American entomologist who specialized in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Works Partial list: Coleoptera ...

in 1931. Its one species, ''Schistonoea fulvidella'', described by Lord Walsingham in 1897, is found in the

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. The

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is about 15 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous, variable in the colour and quantity of their shading. Some have a tawny-reddish suffusion extending from the base nearly to the termen, around which is a row of six elongate fuscous spots, the pale ground colour appearing also in a narrow streak along the base of the fold and in a streak along the discal cell, in which are two fuscous blotches, the larger before, the smaller one beyond the middle. In other specimens, the dorsal half of the wing is almost entirely whitish ochreous, the reddish suffusion being confined to the costal and apical portions. The hindwings are pale greyish.''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London''. 1897: 62

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Schistonoeidae Monotypic moth genera Taxa named by William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes {{Gelechioidea-stub