Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Family Urodidae - False Burnet Moths

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Urodoidea (False Burnet Moths)
Family Urodidae (False Burnet Moths)
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.