Gelechiidae
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Chrysoesthia drurella (Gelechiidae) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Author: | Stainton, 1854 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type species: | Gelechia rhombella | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diversity: | 507 genera 4,530 species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gelechia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gelechiidae are a family of Lepidoptera (moths).
Harmful Gelechiids
- Anarsia lineatella, peach twig borer
- Pectinophora gossypiella – pink bollworm, larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton
- Phthorimaea operculella – potato tuber moth
- Sitotroga cerealella – Angoumois grain moth
Beneficial Gelechiids
- Metzneria paucipunctella – Knapweed seed head moth, used to control Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa)
| Arthropoda – Insecta – Families of Lepidoptera | |
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Categories: Invertebrate stubs | Moths