Incurvariidae is a family of small primitive
monotrysia
The Monotrysia are a group of moths in the lepidopteran order, not currently considered to be a natural group or clade. Apart from the recently discovered family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinit ...
n moths in the order
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 families and 46 superfamilies, 10 percent of the total described speci ...
. There are twelve
genera
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 nomenclat ...
recognised (Davis, 1999). Many species are
leaf miners and much is known of their host plants, excluding ''
Paraclemensia acerifoliella''. The most familiar species in Europe are perhaps ''
Incurvaria masculella'' and ''
Phylloporia bistrigella''.
The narrow wings are held tightly along the body at rest and some species have very long
antennae.
References
*Davis, D.R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Ch. 6, pp. 65–90 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
External links
Tree of LifeFauna EuropaeaNatural History Museum Hosts databaseAvailable generic names Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-speciesLepIndex list of species and genera in family IncurvariidaeFauna Europaea
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