Biology:Acrolophinae
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Short description: Moth family containing the burrowing webworm moths
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Subfamily: | Acrolophinae Busck, 1912 |
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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 Tineidae family.[4]
Genera
References
- ↑ van Nieukerken, Erik J. et al. (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang. ed. "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758". Zootaxa. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness 3148: 212–221. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf.
- ↑ Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald R.; Harrison, Terry L.; Sohn, JAE-Cheon; Cummings, Michael P.; Zwick, Andreas; Mitter, KIM T. (2015). "A molecular phylogeny and revised classification for the oldest ditrysian moth lineages (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea), with implications for ancestral feeding habits of the mega-diverse Ditrysia". Systematic Entomology 40 (2): 409–432. doi:10.1111/syen.12110.
- ↑ Heppner, John B. (2008), Capinera, John L., ed. (in en), Tube Moths (Lepidoptera: Acrolophidae), Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 3953–3954, doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_2584, ISBN 978-1-4020-6359-6
- ↑ Deyrup, M.; Deyrup, N. D.; Eisner, M.; Eisner, T. (2005). "A Caterpillar that Eats Tortoise Shells". American Entomologist 51 (4): 245–248. doi:10.1093/ae/51.4.245. ISSN 2155-9902.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q33146390 entry
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