Lyonetiidae

Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species.[1] These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed apices noticeably up- or down-turned. The larvae are leaf miners.

Lyonetiidae
Lyonetia prunifoliella imago
mines of Lyonetia clerkella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Yponomeutoidea
Family:	Lyonetiidae Stainton, 1854
Genera
See text

The families Bucculatricidae and Bedelliidae are sometimes considered subfamilies of Lyonetiidae.

Genera

Acanthocnemes Arctocoma Atalopsycha Busckia Cateristis Chrysolytis Cladarodes Compsoschema Copobathra Crobylophora Cycloponympha

Daulocoma Diplothectis Erioptris Eulyonetia Exegetia Hierocrobyla Leioprora Leucoedemia Leucoptera Lyonetia Micropostega

Microthauma Orochion Otoptris Petasobathra Phyllobrostis Platacmaea †Prolyonetia Prytaneutis Stegommata Taeniodictys

References

• Natural History Museum genus database
• Family description

1. van Nieukerken; et al. (2011). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 212–221. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.41.