Scythrididae is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecophoridae as subfamily. Scythrididae adults are smallish to mid-sized moths, which when at rest appear teardrop-shaped.
Scythris limbella is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius. It is found in Asia and Europe.
Scythris is a genus of gelechioid moths. It is the type genus of the flower moth family, which is sometimes included as a subfamily in the Xyloryctidae, or together with these merged into the Oecophoridae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825.
Scythris inspersella, the Norfolk owlet, is a moth of the family Scythrididae, first described by the German entomologist Jacob Hübner in 1817. It has a Holarctic distribution.
Scythris disparella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Johan Martin Jakob von Tengström in 1848. It is found from Europe to the southern Urals.
Scythris laminella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in most of Europe and Central Asia.
Scythris sinensis is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by the Austrian entomologists Baron Cajetan von Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875. The moth is found in Asia, Europe and North America.
Scythris tributella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Zeller in 1847. It is found in central and southern Europe, North Africa (Libya) and Russia, Georgia, Turkey and Turkmenistan.
Scythris lamprochalca is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Ethiopia, Uganda and Yemen.
Scythris accumulata is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Namibia, South Africa (Gauteng) and Zimbabwe.
Scythris rivigera is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Yemen.
Scythris glaphyropa is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Scythris tephrella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 2005. It is found in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Scythris sacharissa is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.
Scythris ejiciens is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1928. It is found in Peru.
Scythris hemidictyas is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1928. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas.
Scythris piratica is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1928. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from New Mexico and Texas.
Scythris fuscicomella is a species of flower moth in the family Scythrididae.
Scythris picaepennis is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1828. It is found in Europe.
Scythris picaepennis is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by the German entomologist Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1855. It is found in Europe.
