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Aeolanthes
Genus of moths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aeolanthes is a genus of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Subfamily: | Aeolanthinae Kuznetzov & Stekolnikov, 1984 |
Genus: | Aeolanthes Meyrick, 1907 |
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Its relationships are enigmatic ā many authors separate it in a monotypic subfamily Aeolanthinae, but there is disagreement over whether to place them in the Elachistidae, Lecithoceridae or Oecophoridae. Recent studies place it in the Depressariidae.