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Family Urodidae

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Urodoidea
Family Urodidae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly placed in the Ermine Moths, Yponomeutidae.
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists one genus, Urodus, with one North American species.
The family contains 65 species worldwide, with only that one North American species, according to North Dakota State University's Key to the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera.
Contributed by Cotinis on 7 July, 2005 - 3:40am

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