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Gracillarioidea is a large superfamily containing four families of insects in the order Lepidoptera. These generally small moths are miners in plant tissue as caterpillars . There are about 113 described genera distributed worldwide, the most commonly encountered of which are leaf miners in the family Gracillariidae .
Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...
Basic moth identification features. While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and ...
Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
The insect order Lepidoptera consists of moths and butterflies (43 superfamilies). [1] Most moths are night-flying, while the butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea ) are the mainly day-flying. Within Lepidoptera as a whole, the groups listed below before Glossata contain a few basal families accounting for less than 200 species; the bulk of ...
Acrolophinae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera. [1] [2] The subfamily comprises the burrowing webworm moths and tube moths and holds about 300 species in five genera, which occur in the wild only in the New World. [3] It is closely related to the family Tineidae. [4]
Bai, H. & H.H. Li, 2009: Review of Spulerimx (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from China, with description of three new species. Oriental Insects 43 : 33-44. Davis, D.R. , F. Mc Kay , M. Oleiro, Marcelo Diniz Vitorino & G.S. Wheeler , 2011: Biology and systematics of the leafmining Gracillariidae of Brazilian Pepper Tree, Schinus terebinthifolus ...
List of Lepidoptera of Andorra; List of Lepidoptera of Austria; List of Lepidoptera of Belarus; List of Lepidoptera of Belgium; List of Lepidoptera of Bosnia and Herzegovina; List of Lepidoptera of Bulgaria; List of Lepidoptera of Croatia; List of Lepidoptera of Cyprus; List of Lepidoptera of Denmark; List of Lepidoptera of the Faroe Islands