Lyonetiidae is a family of
moth
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s with some 200 described species.
These are small, slender moths, the
wingspan
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rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and
abdomen
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, often have pointed
apices noticeably up- or down-turned. The
larva
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...
e are
leaf miner
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths ( Lepidoptera), sawflies ( Symphyta, the mother clade of wasp ...
s.
The families
Bucculatricidae and
Bedelliidae are sometimes considered subfamilies of Lyonetiidae.
Genera
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Acanthocnemes''
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Arctocoma''
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Atalopsycha''
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Busckia''
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Cateristis''
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Chrysolytis''
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Cladarodes''
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Compsoschema''
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Copobathra''
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Crobylophora''
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Cycloponympha''
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Daulocoma''
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Diplothectis''
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Erioptris''
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Eulyonetia''
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Exegetia''
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Hierocrobyla''
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Leioprora''
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Leucoedemia''
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Leucoptera''
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Lyonetia''
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Micropostega''
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Microthauma''
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Orochion''
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Otoptris''
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Petasobathra''
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Phyllobrostis''
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Platacmaea''
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Prolyonetia''
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Prytaneutis''
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Stegommata''
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Taeniodictys''
References
Natural History Museum genus database
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