page_title: Oecophoridae
section_title: Taxonomy and systematics
hierarchical_section_title: Oecophoridae / Taxonomy and systematics
caption_attribution_description: Stathmopoda pedella (Linnaeus, 1761) English: Stathmopoda pedella Deutsch: Stathmopoda pedella Location: shrubbery near Ilmenau (Thuringia, Germany) Camera: Canon EOS 20D Lens: Canon EF 3.5/180L Focal Length: 180 mm Exposure: 1/200, f22 Film / Speed: ISO 100 Comment: Canon Flash 580EX
context_page_description: Oecophoridae is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this.
context_section_description: Oecophorinae
  Pleurotinae Toll, 1956
  Deuterogoniinae Spuler, 1910
  Unplaced
  Colchia Lvovsky, 1995
  Also possibly included is the Peruvian species Auxotricha ochrogypsa, described by Edward Meyrick in 1931 as the sole member of its genus. In the past, the family was circumscribed more widely and included the following subfamilies:
  Amphisbatinae (sometimes in Depressariinae)
  Autostichinae
  Depressariinae (including Cryptolechiinae)
  Hypertrophinae
  Metachandinae
  Oecophorinae (including Chimabachinae, Deuterogoniinae, Peleopodinae, Philobotinae)
  Stathmopodinae
  Stenomatinae
  Some treatments include only the Oecophorinae and Stathmopodinae here, placing the others elsewhere in the Gelechoidea (typically in the Elachistidae, but occasionally as independent families). But this approach might make Elachistidae highly paraphyletic. Other authors go as far as to expand the Oecophoridae beyond the delimitation used here, including also such groups as the Ethmiidae and Xyloryctidae. The latter may indeed be part of a monophyletic Oecophoridae, but more research is required; the Ethmiidae on the other hand are more likely a distinct family. The mysterious genus Aeolanthes is also sometimes included in the Oecophoridae (as a monotypic subfamily Aeolanthinae), but its actual relationships are quite obscure.
  Some additional genera are also treated as Oecophoridae incertae sedis in recent studies:
  Amseloecia Povolný, 1983
  Callimodes Leraut, 1989 (Oecophorinae?)
  subgenus Orienta Lvovsky, 1995
  Colchia Lvovsky, 1995
  Luquetia Leraut, 1991 (Depressariinae?)
  Minetia Leraut, 1991 (Oecophorinae?)
  Odonna Clarke, 1982
  Schiffermuellerina Leraut, 1989 (Oecophorinae?)
  Schiffermuellerina grandis (Desvignes, 1842)
  Zizyphia Chrétien, 1908 (Oecophorinae? Formerly in Gelechiidae)
  †Epiborkhausenites Skalski, 1973 (Bartonian age, Baltic amber, Lithuania)
caption: Stathmopoda pedella (Stathmopodinae) near Ilmenau (Thuringia, Germany)
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