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A Key to the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera
with special reference to North and South Dakota
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6c (6a'). Wings lanceolate, labial palpi drooping and with lateral bristles on second
segment, palpi shorter than head Vertex always with erect vestiture,
frons with broad scales. Superfamily Tischerioidea*
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This superfamily is represented by the single family, Tischeriidae
with about 70 species worldwide.
All of the 48 species known from North America
belong to the genus Tischeria.
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13.’ Wings broad or lanceolate,
labial palpi usually upturned and extending beyond vertex, occasionally porrect,
rarely short and drooping; always lacking lateral bristles.. Vertex rarely with
erect vestiture.
Superfamily Gelechioidea
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Head of Walshia miscecolorella (Walsingham). |
Isophrictis similiella (Chambers) left, Ethmia
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The Gelechioidea is an extensive superfamily divided into a number of families;
at least
nine of which occur in the northern Great Plains. See Hodges, Gelechioidea, in
Kristiensen (1999) for complete familial diagnoses. A synopsis of
families is as follows:
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