Gelechiidae
Chrysoesthia drurella (Gelechiidae)
: Eukaryota : Animalia : Metazoa : Arthropoda : Hexapoda : Insecta : Pterygota : Neoptera : Endopterygota : Lepidoptera : Ditrysia : Microlepidoptera : Gelechioidea : Gelechiidae
Author:	Stainton, 1854
Type species:	Gelechia rhombella
Diversity:	507 genera 4,530 species
Genera
Gelechia (etc)

The Gelechiidae are a family of Lepidoptera (moths).

Harmful Gelechiids

• Anarsia lineatella, peach twig borer
• Pectinophora gossypiella - pink bollworm, larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton
• Phthorimaea operculella - potato tuber moth
• Sitotroga cerealella - Angoumois grain moth

Beneficial Gelechiids

• Metzneria paucipunctella - Knapweed seed head moth, used to control Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa )