Lyonetiidae is a family of
moths with some 200 described species.
These are small, slender moths, the
wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and
abdomen, often have pointed
apices
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noticeably up- or down-turned. The
larvae are
leaf miners.
The families
Bucculatricidae
Bucculatricidae or (Bucculatrigidae) is a family of moths. This small family has representatives in all parts of the world. Some authors place the group as a subfamily of the family Lyonetiidae.
Adults of this family are easily overlooked, bein ...
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Bedelliidae
Bedelliidae is a small family of small, narrow-winged moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are ...
are sometimes considered subfamilies of Lyonetiidae.
Genera
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Acanthocnemes
''Acanthocnemes'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded b ...
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Arctocoma
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Atalopsycha
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Busckia
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Cateristis
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Chrysolytis
''Chrysolytis'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded bac ...
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Cladarodes
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Compsoschema
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Copobathra
''Copobathra'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backw ...
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Crobylophora
''Crobylophora'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded ba ...
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Cycloponympha
''Cycloponympha'' is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae
Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The fami ...
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Daulocoma
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Diplothectis
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Erioptris
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Eulyonetia
''Eulyonetia'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backw ...
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Exegetia
''Exegetia'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwar ...
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Hierocrobyla
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Leioprora
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Leucoedemia
''Leucoedemia'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded bac ...
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Lyonetia
''Lyonetia'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae.
Species
* '' Lyonetia alniella'' Chambers, 1875
* '' Lyonetia anthemopa'' Meyrick, 1936
* '' Lyonetia bakuchia'' Kuroko, 1964
* '' Lyonetia boehmeriella'' Kuroko, 1964
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Micropostega
''Micropostega'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded b ...
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Microthauma
''Microthauma'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded back ...
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Orochion
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Otoptris
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed api ...
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Petasobathra
''Petasobathra'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded ba ...
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Phyllobrostis
''Phyllobrostis'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae.
Species
*''eremitella''-group
** ''Phyllobrostis eremitella'' De Joannis, 1912
** ''Phyllobrostis tephroleuca'' (Meyrick, 1913)
** ''Phyllobrostis calcaria'' Meyrick, 1911
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Platacmaea
''Platacmaea'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded back ...
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Prolyonetia
''Prolyonetia'' is an extinct genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae. The single species ''Prolyonetia cockerelli'' Kusnetzov, 1941, has been described from Baltic amber
The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, c ...
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Prytaneutis
''Prytaneutis'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae.
This genus is allied to Lyonetia which, however, has the antennae always longer than the forewings.
The only species in this genus is ''Prytaneutis clavigera'' Meyrick, 1911 that is ...
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Stegommata
''Stegommata'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae.
Species
*''Stegommata hesperias'' Meyrick, 1893
*''Stegommata leptomitella'' Meyrick, 1880
*''Stegommata sulfuratella'' Meyrick, 1880
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Taeniodictys
''Taeniodictys'' is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family (biology), family Lyonetiidae described by William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes in 1933. It contains only one species, ''Taeniodictys sericella'', described by the same author in ...
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References
Natural History Museum genus database
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