Douglasiidae
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| Douglasiidae Temporal range: | |
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| Tinagma perdicella | |
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| Klimeschia transversella | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Clade: | Apoditrysia |
| Family: | Douglasiidae Heinemann & Wocke, 1876 |
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Douglasiidae is a small Lepidopteran family.[2][3][4] It includes around 32 species[2] of micromoth whose adults are collectively called Douglas moths, after British lepidopterist and hemipterist John William Douglas.[5] The largest genus in the family is Tinagma.[2] They are primarily found in the Palearctic realm,[5] with some Nearctic species.[4] The adults have a 6 to 15 mm wingspan, with a reduced hindwing venation and long fringes. The larvae are leaf miners or borers, primarily in stems and petioles, belonging to Boraginaceae, Labiatae, and Rosaceae.[5]
