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. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 species of moths exist in India.

Family lists for Indian moths

* Alucitidae * Bombycidae *

Brachodidae Brachodidae is a family of day-flying moths, commonly known as little bear moths, which contains about 135 species distributed around much of the world (Edwards et al. 1999). The relationships and status of the presently included genera are not w ...

Brahmaeidae Brahmaeidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are ...

Choreutidae Choreutidae, or metalmark moths, are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order whose relationships have been long disputed. It was placed previously in the superfamily Yponomeutoidea in family Glyphipterigidae and in superfamily Sesioide ...

* Cosmopterigidae * Cossidae * Crambidae * Depressariidae *

Drepanidae The Drepanidae are a family of moths with about 660 species described worldwide. They are generally divided in three subfamilies) which share the same type of hearing organ. Thyatirinae, previously often placed in their own family, bear a super ...

* Elachistidae *'' Urodeta jurateae'' Sruoga & Rociene, 2018 *''

Urodeta pectena ''Urodeta'' is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae. The genus was originally assigned to the family Momphidae. Species *''Urodeta absidata'' Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011 *''Urodeta acerba'' Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011 *''Urodeta acinacella' ...

'' Sruoga & Rociene, 2018 *

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

Eupterotidae Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species. Diversity The family consists of four subfamilies and the unplaced ''Ganissa group''. The subfamily Eupterotinae consists of about 11 genera, the ...

* Gelechiidae * Geometridae *

Glyphipterigidae The Glyphipterigidae are a family of small moths commonly known as sedge moths, as the larvae of many species feed on sedge The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family ...

Gracillariidae Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, ''Cameraria ...

* Hepialidae * Immidae *

Lasiocampidae The Lasiocampidae are a family of moths also known as eggars, tent caterpillars, snout moths (although this also refers to the Pyralidae), or lappet moths. Over 2,000 species occur worldwide, and probably not all have been named or studied. It i ...

Lecithoceridae The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of th ...

Limacodidae The Limacodidae or Eucleidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Zygaenoidea or the Cossoidea;Scoble, M.J. (1992). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity.'' Oxford University Press. the placement is in dispute. They are often ca ...

* Lymantriidae *

Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f ...

* Nolidae *

Notodontidae Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. The family was described by James Francis Stephens in 1829. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, espe ...

* Oecophoridae * Pantheidae * Peleopodidae *

Phaudidae The Phaudidae are a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera ar ...

Psychidae The Psychidae (bagworm moths, also simply bagworms or bagmoths) are a family of the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, su ...

* Pterophoridae * Pyralidae * Saturniidae * Sesiidae * Sphingidae *

Thyrididae The Thyrididae comprise the family of picture-winged leaf moths. They are the only family in the superfamily Thyridoidea, which sometimes has been included in the Pyraloidea, but this isn't supported by cladistic analysis. Most species live in t ...

* Tineidae * Tortricidae * Uraniidae * Xyloryctidae * Yponomeutidae * Zygaenidae

References

New species of Urodeta Stainton, 1869 (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae, Elachistinae) from Ghana and Democratic Republic of the Congo, with identification keys to the Afrotropical species of the genus
* * Hampson, G.F. & al (1892-1937) ''Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma - Moths''. Vols. 1-5 cxix + 2813 p - 1295 figs - 1 table - 15 pl (12 in col.) * Kendrick, R.C., 2002

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''Moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong''. PhD thesis, The University of Hong Kong. xvi + 660 pp

* Savela, Markku. Website on Lepidoptera and some other life forms - page o
order Lepidoptera
(Accessed 8 July 2007).

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