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Sack-bearer Moths
Mimallonidae
Mimallonidae (mimallonids), sometimes known as "sack-bearer" moths for the larval case-building behavior, are a family of Lepidoptera containing over 300 named species in 43 genera. These moths are found only in the New World, with most taxa occurring in the Neotropics. Adult moths are externally similar to those belonging to some of the other Macroheterocera families Bombycoidea and Drepanoidea, and thus have been variously treated as belonging to either one of these or other superfamilies.
8 branches of this family, most-observed first
Lacosominae
subfamilyLacosominae
Cicinninae
subfamilyCicinninae
Druenticinae
subfamilyDruenticinae
Mimalloninae
subfamilyMimalloninae
Meneviinae
subfamilyMeneviinae
Roelofinae
subfamilyRoelofinae
Zaphantinae
subfamilyZaphantinae
Aurorianinae
subfamilyAurorianinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Mimallonidae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 119527.