Tineoidea

 Tineoidea is the ditrysian superfamily of moths that includes clothes moths, bagworms and relatives. There are six families usually included within it,[1] Eriocottidae, Arrhenophanidae, Lypusidae, Acrolophidae, Tineidae and Psychidae, whose relationships are currently uncertain.

Tineoidea
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Nemapogon granellus
Scientific classificatione
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Infraorder:Heteroneura
Clade:Eulepidoptera
Clade:Ditrysia
Superfamily:Tineoidea
Latreille, 1810
Families
  • Acrolophidae
  • Arrhenophanidae
  • Eriocottidae
  • Lypusidae
  • Meessiidae
  • Psychidae
  • Tineidae
Diversity
4,200 species

The Lypusidae, for example, might belong to the Gelechioidea.[2]

Some authors merge the Tineoidea and all or part of the Gracillarioidea; in this case the Tineoidea sensu stricto are downranked to a series Tineiformes.

Real clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella

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