Flower moths
Adult Scythris scopolella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Clade:	Eulepidoptera
Clade:	Ditrysia
Clade:	Apoditrysia
Superfamily:	Gelechioidea
Family:	Scythrididae Rebel, 1901
Diversity[1]
About 30 genera and 669 species
Synonyms
Scythridinae (but see text) Butalidae Heinemann & Wocke, 1876

Scythrididae (flower moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecophoridae as subfamily. Scythrididae adults are smallish to mid-sized moths, which when at rest appear teardrop-shaped.^[2]

Selected genera

Genera of Scythrididae (with some notable species also listed) include:^[3]

• Apostibes Walsingham, 1907
• Areniscythris Powell, 1976
• Asymmetrura Landry, 1991
• Bactrianoscythris Passerin d'Entrèves & Roggero, 2009
• Catascythris^[4]
• Coleophorides Amsel, 1935
• Enolmis Duponchel, 1845
• Episcythris Amsel, 1939
• Eretmocera Zeller, 1852
• Erigethes Walsingham, 1907
• Falkovitshella Passerin d'Entrèves & Roggero, 2007
• Haploscythris Viette, 1956
• Mapsidius Walsingham, 1907
• Necrothalassia Amsel, 1935
• Neoscythris Landry, 1991
• Paralogistis Meyrick, 1921
• Parascythris Hanneman, 1960
• Proterochyta Meyrick, 1918
• Rhamphura Landry, 1991
• Scythris Hübner,
  • Scythris limbella
  • Scythris scopolella
• Synacroloxis Gozmány, 1952

Footnotes

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scythrididae.

Data related to Scythrididae at Wikispecies See also Gelechioidea Talk page for comparison of some approaches to gelechioid systematics and taxonomy.

• Baran, Tomasz (2004): Scythris buszkoi sp. n., a new species of Scythrididae from Europe (Gelechioidea). Nota Lepidopterologica 26(3/4): 89–98. PDF fulltext Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Hodges, R.W. (1999): The Gelechioidea. In: Kristensen, N.P. (ed.): Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology (Vol. IV Part 35: Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies 1): 131–158. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York.
• Savela, Markku (2004): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Scythrididae. Version of 2004-JAN-02. Retrieved 2010-APR-22.
• Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2009): Gelechioidea. Version of 2009-APR-02. Retrieved 2010-APR-22.

Further reading

• Bengtsson, Bengt Å (2014). The Afrotropical Scythrididae. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Peks.