Taxon Description (Wikipedia)

Cosmopterigidae (cosmet moths) is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order. These are small moths with narrow wings whose tiny larvae feed internally on the leaves, seeds, stems, etc of their host plants. There are about 1,500 described species. The family is most diverse in the Australian and Pacific region with about 780 species. full article at Wikipedia

BOLD Stats

Specimen Records:	1,206
Specimens with Sequences :	1,116
Specimens with Barcodes :	1,105
Public Records :	36
Species :	191
Species With Barcodes :	185
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Collected from 21 countries. Top 20 :

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Australia [567] United States [276] Canada [124] French Guiana [78] unspecified [57] Papua New Guinea [33] Finland [21]

Germany [13] United Kingdom [8] Indonesia [8] South Korea [5] Romania [4] Norway [3] Switzerland [2]

Cameroon [2] Spain [1] Kenya [1] Austria [1] Greece [1] Japan [1]

Taxon Occurrence (GBIF)