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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 474
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Depressariidae
- Collections
- DMNS
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Apoditrysia
- Image
- Xylorycta assimilis.jpg
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- taxon rank
- superfamily
- topic's main category
- Category:Gelechioidea
- taxon name
- Gelechioidea
- Commons category
- Gelechioidea
- taxon common name
- Twirler Moths and kin
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Families
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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.