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Gracillarioidea

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Kingdom
  
Superorder
  
Amphiesmenoptera

Suborder
  
Glossata

Scientific name
  
Gracillarioidea

Rank
  
Superfamily

Phylum
  
Order
  
Infraorder
  
Heteroneura

Higher classification
  
Gracillarioidea httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Lower classifications
  
Gracillariidae, Douglasiidae, Horse‑chestnut leaf miner, Phyllocnistis citrella, Epicephala vermiformis

Gracillarioidea


Gracillarioidea is a large superfamily containing four families of insects in the order Lepidoptera. These generally small moths are miners in plant tissue as caterpillars. There are about 113 described genera distributed worldwide, the most commonly encountered of which are leaf-miners in the family Gracillariidae.

References

Gracillarioidea Wikipedia


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