Gracillarioidea

 Gracillarioidea is a large superfamily containing four families of insects in the order Lepidoptera. These generally small moths are miners in plant tissue as caterpillars. There are about 113 described genera distributed worldwide, the most commonly encountered of which are leaf miners in the family Gracillariidae.

Gracillarioidea
"Caloptilia cuculipennella" (Hübner, 1796)
Caloptilia cuculipennella (Hübner, 1796)
Scientific classificatione
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Clade:Ditrysia
Superfamily:Gracillarioidea
Families
  • Roeslerstammiidae
  • Douglasiidae
  • Bucculatricidae
  • Gracillariidae
Diversity
Over 2300 species

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