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Scythrididae

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Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Scythrididae

Areniscythris brachypteris Powell, 1976

Areniscythris brachypteris is a flightless scythridid moth found in California's coastal sand dunes, described in 1976.

Scythris limbella (Fabricius, 1775)

Scythris limbella is a moth species that feeds on goosefoots and oraches, found across Eurasia and introduced to the north-eastern Nearctic.

Scythris trivinctella (Zeller, 1873)

Scythris trivinctella, the banded scythris moth, is a North American moth in the Scythrididae family that feeds on Amaranthus hybridus as larvae.

Scythris fuscicomella (Clemens, 1860)

Scythris fuscicomella is a species of flower moth in the family Scythrididae with MONA/Hodges number 1659.

Scythris sinensis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Scythris sinensis is a moth with a 10–14 mm wingspan, whose larvae feed on Chenopodium album and Atriplex patula.

Scythris scopolella (Linnaeus, 1767)

Scythris scopolella is a Scythrididae moth found across parts of Europe, with day-active adults and larvae that feed on specific plants and wall mosses.

Enolmis acanthella (Godart, 1824)

Enolmis acanthella is an expanding-range Scythrididae moth that eats lichens in its larval stage.

Neoscythris fissirostris Meyrick, 1928

Neoscythris fissirostris is a described Scythrididae moth species found in parts of North America, with 10–15 mm wingspan and grey wings marked with white.