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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 474
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Depressariidae
- Collections
- DMNS
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Families
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
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Gelechioidea (from the type genus Gelechia, "keeping to the ground") is the superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. It is a large and poorly understood '"micromoth" superfamily, constituting one of the basal lineages of the Ditrysia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gelechioidea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.