Scythrididae

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title: "Scythrididae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["scythrididae", "moth-families"] description: "Family of moths" topic_path: "general/scythrididae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythrididae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of moths ::

| name = Flower moths | image = Scythris scopolella.jpg | image_caption = Adult Scythris scopolella | display_parents = 5 | taxon = Scythrididae | authority = Rebel, 1901 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = | synonyms =

• Scythridinae (but see text)
• Butalidae Heinemann & Wocke, 1876 | diversity_link = #Genera | diversity_ref = | diversity = About 30 genera and 669 species

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.

Selected genera

Genera of Scythrididae (with some notable species also listed) include:

• Apostibes Walsingham, 1907
• Areniscythris Powell, 1976
• Asymmetrura Landry, 1991
• Bactrianoscythris Passerin d'Entrèves & Roggero, 2009
• Catascythris
• 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, [1825]
  • Scythris limbella
  • Scythris scopolella
• Synacroloxis Gozmány, 1952 [these genera are listed by Wikispecies, but probably based on the NHM genus database which also includes junior synonyms (the list included several known junior synonyms which have been removed). Each and every one needs to be verified for validity before moving it to the above list.]
• Aeraula
• Arotrura
• Asymmetrura
• Castorura
• Coleophorides
• Colinita
• Exodomorpha
• Haploscythris
• Neoscythris
• Paralogistis
• Rhamphura
• Staintonia
• Synacroloxis --

Footnotes

References

See also Gelechioidea Talk page for comparison of some approaches to gelechioid systematics and taxonomy.

• (2004): Scythris buszkoi sp. n., a new species of Scythrididae from Europe (Gelechioidea). Nota Lepidopterologica 26(3/4): 89–98. PDF fulltext
• (1999): The Gelechioidea. In: : Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology (Vol. IV Part 35: Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies 1): 131–158. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York.
• (2004): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Scythrididae. Version of 2004-JAN-02. Retrieved 2010-APR-22.
• (2009): Gelechioidea. Version of 2009-APR-02. Retrieved 2010-APR-22.

References

1. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera]
2. Hodges (1999), Baran (2004), ToL (2009), Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)
3. Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)
4. KARI NUPPONEN & AIDAS SALDAITIS. (March 2013). "Recent records of scythridids from the islands of Socotra and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea, Scythrididae)". Zootaxa.

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