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Levipalpus

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Levipalpus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Subfamily: Depressariinae
Genus: Levipalpus
Hannemann, 1953
Type species
Depressaria hepatariella
Lienig & Zeller, 1846

Levipalpus is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is placed in the family Depressariidae, which is often – particularly in older treatments – considered a subfamily of the Oecophoridae or included in the Elachistidae.[1]

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)

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