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Elachistinae
The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and completely unnatural assemblage, united merely by symplesiomorphies retained from the first gelechioid moths.
8 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
Typical Grass Miner Moths
genusElachista
Perittia
genusPerittia
Urodeta
genusUrodeta
Stephensia
genusStephensia
Eretmograptis
genusEretmograptis
Haplophylax
genusHaplophylax
Cryphioxena
genusCryphioxena
Thectophila
genusThectophila
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 479713.