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Lypusidae

Lypusidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Tineoidea
Family: Lypusidae
Herrich-Schäffer, 1857
Subfamilies

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Lypusidae is an obscure family of moths placed in the superfamily Gelechioidea.

The group was traditionally considered monotypic (containing only the genus Lypusa with two species) and belonging in the primitive moth superfamily Tineoidea. Previous research suggested that Lypusa was so closely related to Amphisbatis – the type genus of the gelechioid subfamily Amphisbatinae (or family Amphisbatidae) – that these groups were merged.


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