| Perittia serica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Elachistidae |
| Genus: | Perittia |
| Species: | P. serica |
| Binomial name | |
| Perittia serica | |
| Synonyms | |
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Perittia serica is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Colorado.
The length of the forewings is about 6 mm. [2]
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.
Urodeta is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae. The genus was originally assigned to the family Momphidae.
Perittia is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae.
Perittia daleris is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Western Australia.
Perittia antauges is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Western Australia.
Perittia deroga is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in New South Wales, Australia.
Perittia herrichiella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from Sweden and Finland to the Pyrenees and Italy and from France to the Baltic region and Romania. It has also been recorded from Russia and North America, including New York, Ontario, Indiana and Michigan. The expected range of the species is south-eastern Canada and the north-central and north-eastern parts of the United States.
Perittia obscurepunctella is a moth of the family Elachistidae found in Europe.
Perittia karadaghella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Ukraine and Turkey.
Perittia farinella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in most of Europe.
Perittia huemeri is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Hungary, Croatia and Turkey.
Perittia biloba is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Perittia minitaurella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Greece (Crete).
Perittia cygnodiella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from British Columbia and Alberta through Washington to California.
Perittia eremonoma is a moth of the family Elachistidae described by Annette Frances Braun in 1948. It is found in the United States from Oregon, Utah, Nebraska and Colorado to California.
Perittia passula is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in California, United States.
Perittia metaxea is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Texas, United States.
Perittia andoi is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Japan and the Russian Far East.
Perittia tectusella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Sruoga in 1997. It is found in Central Asia, where it has been recorded from Tajikistan.
Perittia cinereipunctella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Turati in 1930. It is found in Zimbabwe.
