Elachistidae

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title: Elachistidae
text: The Elachistidae are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and completely unnatural assemblage, united merely by symplesiomorphies retained from the first gelechioid moths. In fact, most of these moths appear to be either closer to the Oecophorinae and are hence nowadays usually included in the Oecophoridae, or constitute quite basal lineag
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description: Family of moths
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elachistidae
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date modified: 2023-10-15T17:31:35Z
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