The Momphidae, or mompha moths, is a family of

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s with some 115 described species. It was described by

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in 1857. These moths tend to be rather small with a

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of up to 21 mm. The wings are held folded over the body at rest. The

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e are concealed feeders, either as

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 or within seeds or stems.

Genera

*'' Anchimompha'' Clarke, 1965 *'' Batrachedrodes'' Zimmerman, 1978 *'' Desertidacna'' Sinev, 1988 *'' Gracilosia'' Sinev, 1989 *'' Inflataria'' Sinev, 1989 *'' Licmocera'' Walsingham, 1891 *'' Mompha'' Hübner,

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/small> **subgenus '' Anybia'' **subgenus '' Cyphophora'' **subgenus '' Lophoptilus'' **subgenus '' Psacaphora'' *'' Moriloma'' Busck, 1912 *'' Palaeomystella'' T. B. Fletcher, 1940 *'' Patanotis'' Meyrick, 1913 *'' Phalaritica'' Meyrick, 1913 *'' Semeteria'' Sinev, 1989 *'' Synallagma'' Engel, 1907 *'' Zapyrastra'' Meyrick, 1889

Former genera

*'' Batrachedropsis'' (synonym of '' Coccidiphila'' in

Cosmopterigidae The Cosmopterigidae are a family of insects (cosmet moths) in the order Lepidoptera. These are small moths with narrow wings whose tiny larvae feed internally on the leaves, seeds and stems of their host plants. About 1500 species are described. ...

) *'' Bifascia'' (now in

) *'' Coccidiphila'' (now in

) *'' Isorrhoa'' (now in

) *'' Lacciferophaga'' *''

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'' *'' Lienigia'' *'' Tenuipenna'' (synonym of '' Pyroderces'' in

) *'' Urodeta'' (now in

Elachistidae The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and comp ...

)

References

* Moth families Gelechioidea {{Momphidae-stub