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Welcome to Superfamily Tineoidea!

Tineoidea - Liber Deserti

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(From Wikipedia) Tineoidea is the ditrysian superfamily of moths that includes clothes moths, bagworms and relatives.

FACT: The scales for which moths are infamously known are actually modified, flattened hairs that cover the whole body and the wings!

Currently discovered: 3/6 Families, 0/1 Genera

Family

  1. Psychidae - Bagworm Moths
  2. Dryadaulidae
  3. Tineidae - Fungus Moths, Clothes Moths and Allies