Ethmiinae | |
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Adult Ethmia quadrillella at Commanster (Belgian Ardennes) |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Suborder: | Glossata |
Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
Division: | Ditrysia |
Superfamily: | Gelechioidea |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Subfamily: |
Ethmiinae Busck, 1909 |
Synonyms | |
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The Ethmiinae are a subfamily of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea sometimes included in the Elachistidae or the Oecophoridae, but mostly in the Depressariidae as a subfamily Ethmiinae.
Seven genera are presently placed here; numerous others are now considered junior synonyms (mostly of Ethmia):