Lypusidae is an obscure family of moths placed in the

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Gelechioidea __NOTOC__ Gelechioidea (from the type genus ''Gelechia'', "keeping to the ground") is the superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. It is a large a ...

History of classification

The group was traditionally considered

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(containing only the

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Lypusa ''Lypusa'' is a genus of moths of the Lypusidae family, traditionally held to be a monotypic lineage of Tineoidea. However, it may actually belong to the same lineage of Gelechioidea as the Amphisbatinae (or Amphisbatidae). The genus contains on ...

'' with two species) and belonging in the primitive moth

Tineoidea Tineoidea is the ditrysian superfamily of moths that includes clothes moths, Bagworm moth, bagworms and relatives. There are six families usually included within it, Eriocottidae, Arrhenophanidae, Lypusidae, Acrolophidae, Tineidae and Psychidae, ...

. Previous research suggested that ''Lypusa'' was so closely related to ''

Amphisbatis ''Amphisbatis'' is a monotypic genus of moths belonging to the family Oecophoridae. The only species is ''Amphisbatis incongruella''. It is found in Europe. The wingspan is about 11 mm. The moth flies from March to May depending on the loc ...

'' – the

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of the gelechioid subfamily

Amphisbatinae __NOTOC__ The Amphisbatinae was a small subfamily of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Like their relatives therein, their exact relationships are not yet very well resolved. The present lineage is often included in the Depressariinae as a tr ...

(or family Amphisbatidae) – that these groups were merged.

Taxonomy and systematics

* Lypusinae Herrich-Schäffer, 1857 * Chimabachinae Heinemann, 1870

References

Moth families {{Gelechioidea-stub