Acrolophinae

Acrolophinae
Acrolophus species
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Acrolophinae
Busck, 1912
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Acrolophinae is a subfamily of moths in the order Lepidoptera. The subfamily comprises the burrowing webworm moths and tube moths and holds about 300 species in five genera, which occur in the wild only in the New World. It is within the family Tineidae.

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References

  1. ↑ van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Kaila, Lauri; Kitching, Ian J.; Kristensen, Niels P.; Lees, David C.; Minet, Joël; Mitter, Charles; Mutanen, Marko; Regier, Jerome C.; Simonsen, Thomas J.; Wahlberg, Niklas; Yen, Shen-Horn; Zahiri, Reza; et al. (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758" (PDF). Zootaxa. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. 3148: 212–221. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
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  3. ↑ Heppner, John B. (2008), "Tube Moths (Lepidoptera: Acrolophidae)", in Capinera, John L. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Entomology, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 3953–3954, doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_2584, ISBN 978-1-4020-6359-6
  4. ↑ Deyrup, M.; Deyrup, N. D.; Eisner, M.; Eisner, T. (2005). "A Caterpillar that Eats Tortoise Shells". American Entomologist. 51 (4): 245–248. doi:10.1093/ae/51.4.245. ISSN 2155-9902.