| Eudonia | |
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| Eudonia angustea imago Oza dos Ríos, Galicia, Spain | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Scopariinae |
| Genus: | Eudonia Billberg, 1820 |
| Type species | |
| Phalaena mercurella | |
| Diversity | |
| About 250 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Boiea Zetterstedt, 1839 | |
Eudonia is a large and widespread genus in the grass moth family (Crambidae), subfamily Scopariinae. There is no common name for the roughly 250 species placed here; new species are still being described regularly. Although the genus was proposed early in the 19th century, many of these moths were for a long time retained in Scoparia, the type genus of the subfamily and a close relative of Eudonia. A few small genera have been proposed for separation from Eudonia, but given the size of this group this is not particularly convincing;[according to whom?] thus, all are retained here pending a comprehensive phylogenetic review.