Eriocottidae

Eriocottidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Clade:	Neolepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Clade:	Eulepidoptera
Clade:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Tineoidea
Family:	Eriocottidae; Spuler, 1898
Diversity
	About 6 genera and 80 species
Synonyms
	Deuterotineidae Zagulajev 1973; Compsoctenidae Dierl, 1970;

Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths^[2] is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae.

Systematics

Eriocottinae Spuler, 1898
- Crepidochares Meyrick, 1922
- Dacryphanes Meyrick, 1908
- Deuterotinea Rebel, 1901
- Eriocottis Zeller, 1847
- Tetracladessa Gozmány & Vári, 1975
Compsocteninae Dierl, 1970
- Cathalistis Meyrick, 1917
- Compsoctena Zeller, 1852
- Filiramifera Mey, 2019
- Kruegerellus Mey & Sobczyk, 2019
- Eocompsoctena Ngo-Muller, Engel, Nel, & Nel, 2020
- Eucryptogona Lower, 1901
- Picrospora Meyrick, 1912

Former genera

Picrospora (transferred to Psychidae, but see Mey, 2011, for placement in Eriocottidae)

References

^ "Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
^ "Tineoidea". Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2007-01-24.

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[1] "Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2013-06-10.

[2] "Tineoidea". Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2007-01-24.

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