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Elachistidae

Elachistidae

7 species in 3 genera are known from Block Island. Unusually among speciose taxa, the type genus of this family, which contains well over 100 Nearctic species, representing the great majority of the family’s Nearctic diversity, is far more diverse in boreal Canada and Alaska than farther south on the continent. Moths in this family are generally tiny to minute.

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