Tineoidea

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Tineoidea
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Nemapogon granellus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Infraorder: Heteroneura
Clade: Eulepidoptera
Clade: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Tineoidea
Latreille, 1810
Families
Diversity
4,200 species

Tineoidea is the ditrysian superfamily of moths that includes clothes moths, bagworms and relatives. There are six families usually included within it,[1] Eriocottidae, Arrhenophanidae, Lypusidae, Acrolophidae, Tineidae and Psychidae, whose relationships are currently uncertain.

Multiple studies showed that members of the Tineoidea are paraphyletic, that is, they are not closely related as they seem, hence their taxonomy requires revision.[2] The Lypusidae, for example, might belong to the Gelechioidea.[3] Some authors merge the Tineoidea and all or part of the Gracillarioidea; in this case the Tineoidea sensu stricto are downranked to a series Tineiformes.

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Real clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella)

References

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  1. ^ Tree of Life Web Project. 2003. Tineoidea. Version 1 January 2003 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Tineoidea/12060/2003.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project
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