Tineoidea is the ditrysian superfamily of moths that includes clothes moths, bagworms and relatives. There are six families usually included within it,

Eriocottidae Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae. ...

Arrhenophanidae Arrhenophanidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera. Genera * '' Arrhenophanes'' * '' Cnissostages'' * '' Dysoptus'' * '' Notiophanes'' * '' Palaeophanes'' The genus ''Parameristis'' with the species ''Parameristis eremaea'' is now con ...

, Lypusidae,

Acrolophidae Acrolophinae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera. The subfamily comprises the burrowing webworm moths and tube moths and holds about 300 species in five genera, which occur in the wild only in the New World. It is closely related to the ...

, Tineidae and Psychidae, whose relationships are currently uncertain. The Lypusidae, for example, might belong to the Gelechioidea. Some authors merge the Tineoidea and all or part of the

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 comm ...

; in this case the Tineoidea ''

sensu stricto ''Sensu'' is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of". It is used in a number of fields including biology, geology, linguistics, semiotics, and law. Commonly it refers to how strictly or loosely an expression is used in describing any particular co ...

'' are downranked to a series Tineiformes. Tineola

References

*''Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders'', edited by Christopher O'Toole, , 2002

External links

Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
Lepidoptera superfamilies {{Tineoidea-stub