This website provides an introduction to the families of Gelechioidea, a major group of Lepidoptera. This site gives links to Gelechioidea families with diagnostic characters, checklists, collection holdings, published references, and other information.
The superfamily Gelechioidea includes case-bearing moths and their relatives. Currently, at least 1,425 genera and 16,250 species are described, but it has been estimated that this is only approximately 25% of the species diversity (Hodges, 1998).
This website represents the combined efforts of Richard Brown (Mississippi State
University), Sibyl Bucheli (Ohio State University), SangMi Lee (Mississippi
State University), Steven Passoa
(USDA-APHIS), and John Wenzel (Ohio State University), and Joe MacGown (Mississippi State University).
