Tineoidea

Tineoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Clade:Ditrysia
Section:Tineina
Subsection:Tineina
Superfamily:Tineoidea
Latreille, 1810
Families

Acrolophidae
Arrhenophanidae
Eriocottidae
Lypusidae
Psychidae
Tineidae

Diversity
4,200 species

Tineoidea is the ditrysian superfamily of moths that includes clothes moths, bagworms and relatives. There are six families usually included within it,[1] Eriocottidae, Arrhenophanidae, Lypusidae, Acrolophidae, Tineidae and Psychidae, whose relationships are currently uncertain.

The Lypusidae, for example, might belong to the Gelechioidea.[2]

Some authors merge the Tineoidea and all or part of the Gracillarioidea; in this case the Tineoidea sensu stricto are downranked to a series Tineiformes.

References

  1. ↑ Tree of Life Web Project. 2003. Tineoidea. Version 1 January 2003 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Tineoidea/12060/2003.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project
  2. ↑ Heikkilä, Maria (2009). "Reassessment of the enigmatic Lepidopteran family Lypusidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea; Gelechioidea)". Systematic Entomology. 35: 71–89. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00483.x.
  • Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002


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