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

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyLypusidae
Observations recorded54,270

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
8
Family
Lypusidae
Collections
USNM
Recorded in
Costa Rica

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Gelechioidea
Image
Lypusa.maurella.mounted.jpg
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taxon name
Lypusidae
taxon rank
family
Commons category
Lypusidae
topic's main category
Category:Lypusidae
taxon synonym
Amphisbatidae
taxon common name
rørmøll
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Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • History of classification
  • Taxonomy and systematics
  • References

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

==History of classification== 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lypusidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.