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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Gelechioidea » Grass Miner Moths (Elachistidae) » Stenomatinae

Subfamily Stenomatinae

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Bird Dropping Moth - Antaeotricha moth - Rectiostoma xanthobasis Bird-dropping Moth - Antaeotricha Small colorful moth - Rectiostoma xanthobasis Unknown Moth 1 - Antaeotricha moth - Antaeotricha unipunctella Bird-dropping moth - Antaeotricha schlaegeri Dotted Anteotricha? - Antaeotricha
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Gelechioidea
Family Elachistidae (Grass Miner Moths)
Subfamily Stenomatinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae by some authors
treated by Hodges in Kristensen (1999) as a subfamily of Elachistidae, the classification followed by All-Leps and BugGuide
Numbers
24 species in 6 genera in North America listed at All-Leps
Internet References
classification history using genus Antaeotricha as an example (Butterflies and Moths of the World)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 2 March, 2006 - 12:24pm

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