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Grass Miner Moths
Elachistidae
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.
17 branches of this family, most-observed first
Elachistinae
subfamilyElachistinae
Parametriotinae
subfamilyParametriotinae
Trachydora
genusTrachydora
Agonoxeninae
subfamilyAgonoxeninae
Spuleria
genusSpuleria
Biselachista
genusBiselachista
Cosmiotes
genusCosmiotes
Mendesia
genusMendesia
Clamydastis
genusClamydastis
Petrochroa
genusPetrochroa
Dicranoctetes
genusDicranoctetes
Myrrhinitis
genusMyrrhinitis
Perittoides
genusPerittoides
Phaneroctena
genusPhaneroctena
Phthinostoma
genusPhthinostoma
Mylocrita
genusMylocrita
Cleroptila
genusCleroptila
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 81988.