Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths[2] is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae.
| Eriocottidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Clade: | Neolepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
| Clade: | Eulepidoptera |
| Clade: | Ditrysia |
| Superfamily: | Tineoidea |
| Family: | Eriocottidae Spuler, 1898 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| About 6 genera and 80 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Systematics
edit- Eriocottinae Spuler, 1898
- Crepidochares Meyrick, 1922
- Dacryphanes Meyrick, 1908
- Deuterotinea Rebel, 1901
- Eriocottis Zeller, 1847
- Tetracladessa Gozmány & Vári, 1975
- Compsocteninae Dierl, 1970
- Cathalistis Meyrick, 1917
- Compsoctena Zeller, 1852
- Filiramifera Mey, 2019
- Kruegerellus Mey & Sobczyk, 2019
- Eocompsoctena Ngo-Muller, Engel, Nel, & Nel, 2020
- Eucryptogona Lower, 1901
- Picrospora Meyrick, 1912
Former genera
edit- Picrospora (transferred to Psychidae, but see Mey, 2011, for placement in Eriocottidae)
References
edit- ^ "Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
- ^ "Tineoidea". Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2007-01-24.
External links
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