''Tridentaforma'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s of the Tridentaformidae family, the sole genus of the family. There is only one species in the genus (and the family), ''Tridentaforma fuscoleuca'', which is found in

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

and Canada. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is 8.5-20.5 mm.Two New Genera of North American Incurvariine Moths
/ref> ''Tridentaforma'' has been considered a member of the family Incurvariidae and Prodoxidae in the past. In 2015, Regier, et al. described a new family, Tridentaformidae, containing the "problematic genus" Tridentaforma.

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Moths described in 1923 Adeloidea Monotypic moth genera Adeloidea genera Moths of North America {{Incurvarioidea-stub