Eriocottidae Explained

Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths^[1] 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)

External links

• Tree of Life
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tineoidea. 2007-01-24. 2012-10-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20121017124134/http://tolweb.org/Eriocottidae. live.