Alucitoidea
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Alucitoidea
Twenty-plume Moth, Alucita hexadactyla
Twenty-plume Moth, Alucita hexadactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Alucitoidea
Diversity
c.160 species
Families

Alucitidae
Tineodidae

Aluctoidea is the superfamily of many-plumed moths. Most of the roughly 160 described species are in the family Alucitidae; the much smaller Tineodidae is sometimes merged therein, making the Alucitoidea monotypic.

References

  • Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002


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