Biology:Eriocottidae

Short description: Family of moths

Eriocottidae
Scientific classification
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
About 6 genera and 80 species
Synonyms
Deuterotineidae Zagulajev 1973 Compsoctenidae Dierl, 1970

Eriocottidae

Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths 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.

Systematics

• 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

• Picrospora (transferred to Psychidae, but see Mey, 2011, for placement in Eriocottidae)

External links

• Tree of Life
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Wikidata ☰ Q1936422 entry