''Tridentaforma'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

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 thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s of the Tridentaformidae family, the sole genus of the family. There is only one species in the genus (and the family), ''Tridentaforma fuscoleuca'', which is found in

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and Canada. The

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is 8.5-20.5 mm.Two New Genera of North American Incurvariine Moths
/ref> ''Tridentaforma'' has been considered a member of the family Incurvariidae and Prodoxidae in the past. In 2015, Regier, et al. described a new family, Tridentaformidae, containing the "problematic genus" Tridentaforma.

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Moths described in 1923 Adeloidea Monotypic moth genera Adeloidea genera Moths of North America {{Incurvarioidea-stub