| Diagnosis: f/hw divided into six plumes.
Diversity: Worldwide, 130 species, three species occurs in
North America, one in North Dakota.
Checklist number: 2313.
Biology: Larvae are borers in fruits, flowers, buds, or stems.
Adults rest with outspread wings.
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| Further reading:
Dugdale, John S. et al.
Chapter 13. The smaller microlepidoptera grade superfamilies, pp. 217-
232 in Kristensen, Neils P. ed. 1999. Lepidoptera, moths and
butterflies. Part 35, Vol. 1 in Handbook of Zoology. Maximilian
Fischer ed. Walter de Gryter, New York. 491 pp.
Landry, Bernard and
Jean-François Landry. 2004. The
genus Alucita in North America, with description of two new
species (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae). Can. Entomol. 136: 553-
579.
Norberg, R. A. 1972. Flight
characteristics of two plume moths, Alucita pentadactyla L. and Orneodes
hexadactyla L. (Microlepidoptera). Zool. Scripta. 1:241-246.
Scoble, Malcom J. 1992. The
Lower Ditrysia, Chapter 11, pp. 225- 289 in The Lepidoptera:
form, function, and diversity. Oxford Univ. press. 1982. 404 pp.
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