Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Superfamilia: Gelechioidea
Familiae (16, per Heikkilä et al., 2014):
Autostichidae – Batrachedridae – Blastobasidae – Coleophoridae – Cosmopterigidae – Depressariidae – Elachistidae – Gelechiidae – Lecithoceridae – Lypusidae – Momphidae – Oecophoridae – Pterolonchidae – Scythrididae – Stathmopodidae – Xyloryctidae

Familiae, status to be confirmed: per Heikkilä et al., 2011.
Metachandidae

Familiae, status to be confirmed: per van Nieukerken et al., 2011.
Coelopoetidae – Epimarptidae – Peleopodidae – Schistonoeidae – Syringopaidae

Name

Gelechioidea Stainton, 1854.

References

• Bucheli, S.R. 2009: Annotated review and discussion of phylogenetically important characters for families and subfamilies of Gelechioidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 2261: 1–22. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

• Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M. & Kaila, L. 2014. Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera). Cladistics 30(6): 563–589. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12064 Reference page. 

• Kaila, L. 2004: Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an exemplar approach. Cladistics 20(4): 303–340. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00027.x Reference page. 

• Kaila, L.; Mutanen, M.; Nyman, T. 2011: Phylogeny of the mega-diverse Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera): adaptations and determinants of success. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 61(3): 801–809. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.016 Reference page. 

• van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 

• Wang, Q.Y. & Li, H.H. 2020. Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera), with an exploratory application on geometric morphometrics. Zoologica Scripta 49(3): 307–328. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12407. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

For more multimedia, look at Gelechioidea on Wikimedia Commons.