Eriocottidae

Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths^[2] is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae.

Eriocottidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Clade:	Neolepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Clade:	Eulepidoptera
Clade:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Tineoidea
Family:	Eriocottidae Spuler, 1898
Diversity[1]
About 6 genera and 80 species
Synonyms
Deuterotineidae Zagulajev 1973 Compsoctenidae Dierl, 1970

Eriocottidae

Systematics

• Eriocottinae Spuler, 1898
  • Crepidochares Meyrick, 1922
  • Dacryphanes Meyrick, 1908
  • Deuterotinea Rebel, 1901
  • Eriocottis Zeller, 1847
  • Tetracladessa Gozmány & Vári, 1975
• Compsocteninae Dierl, 1970
  • Cathalistis Meyrick, 1917
  • Compsoctena Zeller, 1852
  • Filiramifera Mey, 2019
  • Kruegerellus Mey & Sobczyk, 2019
  • Eocompsoctena Ngo-Muller, Engel, Nel, & Nel, 2020
  • Eucryptogona Lower, 1901
  • Picrospora Meyrick, 1912

Former genera

• Picrospora (transferred to Psychidae, but see Mey, 2011, for placement in Eriocottidae)