| Flower moths | |
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| Adult Scythris scopolella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
| Clade: | Eulepidoptera |
| Clade: | Ditrysia |
| Clade: | Apoditrysia |
| Superfamily: | Gelechioidea |
| Family: | Scythrididae Rebel, 1901 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| About 30 genera and 669 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Scythrididae (flower moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The family is sometimes included in the Xyloryctidae as a subfamily Scythridinae, but the Xyloryctidae themselves have sometimes been included in the Oecophoridae as subfamily. Scythrididae adults are smallish to mid-sized moths, which when at rest appear teardrop-shaped.[2]
- ^ Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera
- ^ Hodges (1999), Baran (2004), ToL (2009), Wikispecies (2009-NOV-17), and see references in Savela (2003)