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Old World Spiny-winged Moths
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Old World Spiny-winged Moths

Eriocottidae

Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae.

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8 branches of this family, most-observed first

Compsoctena

genusCompsoctena

Eriocottis

genusEriocottis

Deuterotinea

genusDeuterotinea

Eucryptogona

genusEucryptogona

Dacryphanes

genusDacryphanes

Cathalistis

genusCathalistis

Crepidochares

genusCrepidochares

Kruegerellus

genusKruegerellus

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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 177611.