| Perittia | |
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| Perittia cinereipunctella | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Elachistidae |
| Subfamily: | Elachistinae |
| Genus: | Perittia Stainton, 1854 |
| Synonyms | |
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Perittia is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae.
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.
Gelechioidea is the superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. It is a large and poorly understood '"micromoth" superfamily, constituting one of the basal lineages of the Ditrysia.
The Batrachedridae are a small family of tiny moths. These are small, slender moths which rest with their wings wrapped tightly around their bodies.
Pterolonchidae is a small family of very small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. There are species native to every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
Elachista is a genus of gelechioid moths described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833. It is the type genus of the grass-miner moth family (Elachistidae). This family is sometimes circumscribed very loosely, including for example the Agonoxenidae and Ethmiidae which seem to be quite distinct among the Gelechioidea, as well as other lineages which are widely held to be closer to Oecophora than to Elachista and are thus placed in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae here.
Stephensia is a genus of the small and very small moths of the family Elachistidae.
Urodeta is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae. The genus was originally assigned to the family Momphidae.
Coelopoeta is a relatively divergent genus of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea, which have only been found in western North America.
Perittia ernsti is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Lauri Kaila in 2000. It is found in Argentina.
Perittia fraudatrix is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Lauri Kaila in 2000. It is found in Argentina.
Perittia mastodon is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Lauri Kaila in 2000. It is found in Argentina.
Perittia morgana is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Lauri Kaila in 2000. It is found in Chile.
Perittia nephele is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Lauri Kaila in 2000. It is found in Argentina.
Perittia patagonica is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Lauri Kaila in 2000. It is found in Argentina.
Perittia punatensis is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Lauri Kaila in 2000. It is found in Bolivia.
Perittia tucumana is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Lauri Kaila in 2000. It is found in Argentina.
Perittia smaragdophanes is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932. It is found in Ecuador.
Perittia spermatopis is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1933. It is found in Argentina.
Epimarptidae was a former, or is a possible, monotypic family of moths in the moth superfamily Gelechioidea. It can now be seen as either a synonym of family Batrachedridae, or a monotypic subfamily of that family.
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