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Pterolonchidae
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Pterolonchidae

Pterolonchidae is a small family of very small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. There are species native to every continent except Australia and Antarctica.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Homaledra

genusHomaledra

Pterolonchinae

subfamilyPterolonchinae

Coelopoetinae

subfamilyCoelopoetinae

Houdinia

genusHoudinia

Anathyrsa

genusAnathyrsa

Plexippica

genusPlexippica

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 458020.