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Ethmiidae

Ethmiinae
Ethmia.quadrillella.jpg
Adult Ethmia quadrillella
at Commanster (Belgian Ardennes)
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


  • Azinidae Walsingham, 1906
  • Ethmiadae Meyrick, 1909
  • Ethmiinae Brues, Melander & Carpenter, 1954 (but see text)


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):


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