Superfamily
Gelechioidea (Curved-horn moths)
Chionodes lictor. Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Gelechioidea (from the type genus Gelechia, “resting on the ground”) is the superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. It is a large and poorly understood ‘“micromoth” superfamily, constituting one of the basal lineages of the Ditrysia.
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