Lypusa

Lypusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Tineoidea (disputed)
Family: Lypusidae (disputed)
Genus: Lypusa
Zeller, 1852

Lypusa is a genus of moths of the Lypusidae family, traditionally held to be a monotypic lineage of Tineoidea. However, it may actually belong to the same lineage of Gelechioidea as the Amphisbatinae (or Amphisbatidae).[1]

The genus contains only 2 known species:

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