Incurvariidae
Female Incurvaria masculella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Adeloidea
Family:	Incurvariidae Spuler, 1898
Genera
Alloclemensia Basileura Crinopteryx (disputed) Incurvaria Paraclemensia Perthida Phylloporia Procacitas Protaephagus ?Rhathamictis Simacauda Subclemensia Tridentaforma Vespina †Incurvarites †Prophalonia
Diversity[1]
11 genera and 51 species

Incurvariidae is a family of small primitive monotrysian moths in the order Lepidoptera. There are twelve genera recognised (Davis, 1999). Many species are leaf miners^[2] and much is known of their host plants, excluding Paraclemensia acerifoliella.^[3] The most familiar species in Europe are perhaps Incurvaria masculella^[4] and Phylloporia bistrigella.^[5] The narrow wings are held tightly along the body at rest and some species have very long antennae.

References[edit]

• Davis, D.R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Ch. 6, pp. 65–90 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.

External links[edit]

• Tree of Life
• UK Incurvariidae key Archived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine
• Jeff's UK moths
• Fauna Europaea
• Natural History Museum Hosts database
• Available generic names Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species
• LepIndex list of species and genera in family Incurvariidae
• UK leaf mines
• Swedish Incurvariidae
• Fauna Europaea
• Media related to Incurvariidae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Incurvariidae at Wikispecies