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

Subfamily Glyphidocerinae

Moth - Glyphidocera Kyoto Moth  - Glyphidocera moth - Glyphidocera Glyphidocera little gray moth - Glyphidocera Moth to porch light  - Glyphidocera democratica twirler moth - Glyphidocera septentrionella Glyphidocera lithodoxa
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Gelechioidea (Twirler Moths and kin)
Family Autostichidae
Subfamily Glyphidocerinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Glyphidocerinae Hodges, 1998
*Formerly considered a full family, now treated as a subfamily of Autostichidae (1).
Numbers
11 species in 1 genus in our area (2).
Works Cited
1.Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera)
Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M. and Kaila, L. 2014. Cladistics 30: 563–589.
2.Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. 2016. ResearchGate.net.