Scythrididae
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| Flower moths | |
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| Adult Scythris scopolella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
| Clade: | Eulepidoptera |
| Clade: | Ditrysia |
| Clade: | Apoditrysia |
| Superfamily: | Gelechioidea |
| Family: | Scythrididae Rebel, 1901 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| About 30 genera and 669 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Scythrididae (flower moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecophoridae as subfamily. Scythrididae adults are smallish to mid-sized moths, which when at rest appear teardrop-shaped.[2]
Selected genera
Genera of Scythrididae (with some notable species also listed) include:[3]
- Apostibes Walsingham, 1907
- Areniscythris Powell, 1976
- Asymmetrura Landry, 1991
- Bactrianoscythris Passerin d'Entrèves & Roggero, 2009
- Catascythris[4]
- Coleophorides Amsel, 1935
- Enolmis Duponchel, 1845
- Episcythris Amsel, 1939
- Eretmocera Zeller, 1852
- Erigethes Walsingham, 1907
- Falkovitshella Passerin d'Entrèves & Roggero, 2007
- Haploscythris Viette, 1956
- Mapsidius Walsingham, 1907
- Necrothalassia Amsel, 1935
- Neoscythris Landry, 1991
- Paralogistis Meyrick, 1921
- Parascythris Hanneman, 1960
- Proterochyta Meyrick, 1918
- Rhamphura Landry, 1991
- Scythris Hübner,
- Synacroloxis Gozmány, 1952
Footnotes
- ^ Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera
- ^ Hodges (1999), Baran (2004), ToL (2009), Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)
- ^ Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)
- ^ KARI NUPPONEN & AIDAS SALDAITIS (March 2013). "Recent records of scythridids from the islands of Socotra and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea, Scythrididae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3626 (2): 288–294. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3626.2.6. PMID 26176138. S2CID 19888101. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-03.
References
Data related to Scythrididae at Wikispecies See also Gelechioidea Talk page for comparison of some approaches to gelechioid systematics and taxonomy.
- Baran, Tomasz (2004): Scythris buszkoi sp. n., a new species of Scythrididae from Europe (Gelechioidea). Nota Lepidopterologica 26(3/4): 89–98. PDF fulltext Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Hodges, R.W. (1999): The Gelechioidea. In: Kristensen, N.P. (ed.): Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology (Vol. IV Part 35: Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies 1): 131–158. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York.
- Savela, Markku (2004): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Scythrididae. Version of 2004-JAN-02. Retrieved 2010-APR-22.
- Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2009): Gelechioidea. Version of 2009-APR-02. Retrieved 2010-APR-22.
Further reading
- Bengtsson, Bengt Å (2014). The Afrotropical Scythrididae. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Peks.