Tischerioidea is the superfamily of "trumpet"
leaf miner moths. The superfamily contains just one family, Tischeriidae, and traditionally one
genus, ''
Tischeria
''Tischeria'' is a genus of moths in the family Tischeriidae. The genus '' Coptotriche'' was long treated as a synonym of ''Tischeria'', but is now considered distinct.
Selected species
*'' Tischeria ambigua'' Braun, 1915
*'' Tischeria antilop ...
'', but currently three genera are recognised, widespread around the world including South America (Davis, 1986), except for Australasia (Puplesis and Diskus, 2003). This is one candidate as the
sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
Definition
The expression is most easily illustrated by a cladogram:
Taxon A and t ...
(see also
Palaephatoidea) of the bulk of Lepidoptera, the
Ditrysia (Davis, 1999; Wiegmann ''et al.'', 2002), and they have a
monotrysian type of female reproductive system. These small moths are leaf-miners in the caterpillar stage, feeding mainly on
Fagaceae
The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as evergre ...
(''Tischeria'' and ''Coptotriche''),
Asteraceae, and
Malvaceae (''Astrotischeria''), and some also on
Rhamnaceae
The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales.
The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae h ...
,
Tiliaceae
Tiliaceae () is a family of flowering plants. It is not a part of the APG, APG II and APG III classifications, being sunk in Malvaceae mostly as the subfamilies Tilioideae, Brownlowioideae and Grewioideae, but has an extensive historical r ...
, and
Rosaceae
Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.
The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. Among the most species-rich genera are ''Alchemilla'' (270), ''Sorbus ...
.