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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Archaic Sun Moths (Neopseustoidea) » Acanthopteroctetidae

Family Acanthopteroctetidae

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Neopseustoidea (Archaic Sun Moths)
Family Acanthopteroctetidae
Numbers
4 species in North America. 1 in the Palaearctic (originally described in a separate family Catapterigidae).
Identification
Similar to Eriocraniidae
Food
blotch leafminers on Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae)
Remarks
Probably they are day fliers.
Internet References
Encyclopedia of Entomology. Archaic Sun Moths (Lepidoptera: Acanthopteroctetidae)
Smithsonian. A Revision of the North American Moths of the Superfamily Eriocraniodea
ToL
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Contributed by Chris Grinter on 10 August, 2014 - 3:18pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 10 March, 2016 - 6:08pm

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