Tridentaforma is a genus of moths of the Tridentaformidae family, the sole genus of the family. There is only one species in the genus (and the family), Tridentaforma fuscoleuca, which is found in California and Canada.[2][3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Adeloidea |
| Family: | Tridentaformidae Regier et al., 2015 |
| Genus: | Tridentaforma Davis, 1978 |
| Species: | T. fuscoleuca
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| Tridentaforma fuscoleuca (Braun, 1923)[1]
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The wingspan is 8.5-20.5 mm.[5]
Tridentaforma has been considered a member of the family Incurvariidae[1] and Prodoxidae[6] in the past. In 2015, Regier, et al. described a new family, Tridentaformidae, containing the "problematic genus" Tridentaforma.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b Tridentaforma at funet
- ^ Pohl, Gregory R.; Landry, Jean-François; Schmidt, B. Chris; deWaard, Jeremy R. (2019). "Lepidoptera of Canada". ZooKeys (819): 463–505. doi:10.3897/zookeys.819.27259. PMC 6355748. PMID 30713459.
- ^ mothphotographersgroup
- ^ a b Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Kristensen, Niels P.; Davis, Donald R.; et al. (2015). "A molecular phylogeny for the oldest (nonditrysian) lineages of extant Lepidoptera, with implications for classification, comparative morphology and life‐history evolution". Systematic Entomology. 40 (4): 671–704. doi:10.1111/syen.12129.
- ^ Two New Genera of North American Incurvariine Moths
- ^ "Rangomaramidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
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