Glyphipterigidae Stainton, 1854

Tarasova, Anastasiia A. & Ponomarenko, Margarita G., 2025, New data on Microlepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae, Adelidae, Glyphipterigidae, and Yponomeutidae) from the Far East of Russia, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 456-475 : 465

Family Glyphipterigidae Stainton

The family of Sedge moths ( Glyphipterigidae ) includes about 400 species from 25 genera, of which more than 20 genera are monotypical and about three-fourth of species are included into subcosmopolitan genus Glyphipterix ( Heppner 1982, 1985; Arita 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1995; Diakonoff 1986; Dugdale 1988; Mey 1991; Arita & Heppner 1992; Edwards 1996; Dugdale et al. 1999; Arita & Owada 2006; Liu & Li 2014; Sohn & Heppner 2015; Pohl & Nanz 2023). The greatest generic diversity of the glyphipterigid moths is in the Neotropical region, where 11 genera were described, and most species richness is in the Indomalayan and Australian-New Zealand regions with a slight difference in quantity. The taxonomic diversity in the North Hemisphere is much lower: 48 species from three genera are recorded in the Palaearctic and 41 species from five genera are known in the Nearctic ( Heppner 1982; Arita 1995; Diakonoff 1986; Dugdale 1988; Mey 1991; Arita & Owada 2006; Liu & Li 2014; Sohn & Heppner 2015; Ponomarenko 2016; Pohl & Nanz 2023; Jeong et al. 2024; Ponomarenko & Sinev 2024a). 23 species from three genera were registered for the fauna of Russia and more than half of them are distributed in the Far East ( Ponomarenko 2016; Ponomarenko & Sinev 2024a).