Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyAlucitidae
Observations recorded5
via GBIF
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Alucitoidea
- Image
- A39-20130807-079 (9726373747).jpg
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- taxon name
- Tineodidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Tineodidae
- Commons category
- Tineodidae
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description and ecology
- Systematics and taxonomy
- Genera
- Footnotes
- References
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The Tineodidae or false plume moths are a family of moths with in some cases unusually modified wings: Like in some related moths, the wings of several Tineodidae are decomposed into several rigid spines. This is a small family, with about a global total of 20 species described to date; some undescribed species are known or suspected to exist however. They seem to be of Australian origin, where they are most diverse, but range through the Wallacea to Southeast and South Asia, and into the Pacific to the Marquesas Islands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tineodidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.