Alucitoidea

Taxobox
name = Alucitoidea


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Twenty-plume Moth, "Alucita hexadactyla"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Ditrysia
superfamilia = Alucitoidea
superfamilia_authority =
diversity = c.160 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
Alucitidae
Tineodidae

Aluctoidea is the superfamily of many-plumed moths. Most of the roughly 160 described species are in the family Alucitidae; the much smaller Tineodidae is sometimes merged therein, making the Alucitoidea monotypic.

References

*"Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders", edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002