Scythrididae

Family of moths

Flower moths
Adult Scythris scopolella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Clade:	Eulepidoptera
Clade:	Ditrysia
Clade:	Apoditrysia
Superfamily:	Gelechioidea
Family:	Scythrididae Rebel, 1901
Diversity[1]
About 30 genera and 669 species
Synonyms
Scythridinae (but see text) Butalidae Heinemann & Wocke, 1876

Scythrididae (flower moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecophoridae as subfamily. Scythrididae adults are smallish to mid-sized moths, which when at rest appear teardrop-shaped.^[2]

Selected genera

Genera of Scythrididae (with some notable species also listed) include:^[3]

• Apostibes Walsingham, 1907
• Areniscythris Powell, 1976
• Asymmetrura Landry, 1991
• Bactrianoscythris Passerin d'Entrèves & Roggero, 2009
• Catascythris^[4]
• Coleophorides Amsel, 1935
• Enolmis Duponchel, 1845
• Episcythris Amsel, 1939
• Eretmocera Zeller, 1852
• Erigethes Walsingham, 1907
• Falkovitshella Passerin d'Entrèves & Roggero, 2007
• Haploscythris Viette, 1956
• Mapsidius Walsingham, 1907
• Necrothalassia Amsel, 1935
• Neoscythris Landry, 1991
• Paralogistis Meyrick, 1921
• Parascythris Hanneman, 1960
• Proterochyta Meyrick, 1918
• Rhamphura Landry, 1991
• Scythris Hübner, [1825]
  • Scythris limbella
  • Scythris scopolella
• Synacroloxis Gozmány, 1952

Footnotes

1. ^ Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera
2. ^ Hodges (1999), Baran (2004), ToL (2009), Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)
3. ^ Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)
4. ^ KARI NUPPONEN & AIDAS SALDAITIS (March 2013). "Recent records of scythridids from the islands of Socotra and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea, Scythrididae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3626 (2): 288–294. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3626.2.6. PMID 26176138. S2CID 19888101. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-03.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scythrididae.

Data related to Scythrididae at Wikispecies See also Gelechioidea Talk page for comparison of some approaches to gelechioid systematics and taxonomy.

• Baran, Tomasz (2004): Scythris buszkoi sp. n., a new species of Scythrididae from Europe (Gelechioidea). Nota Lepidopterologica 26(3/4): 89–98. PDF fulltext Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Hodges, R.W. (1999): The Gelechioidea. In: Kristensen, N.P. (ed.): Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology (Vol. IV Part 35: Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies 1): 131–158. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York.
• Savela, Markku (2004): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Scythrididae. Version of 2004-JAN-02. Retrieved 2010-APR-22.
• Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2009): Gelechioidea. Version of 2009-APR-02. Retrieved 2010-APR-22.

Further reading

• Bengtsson, Bengt Å (2014). The Afrotropical Scythrididae. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Peks.