What is Tineidae?
{{Taxobox | image = Nemapogon granella01.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = Adult [[European Grain Moth]] (''Nemapogon granella'': [[Nemapogoninae]]) from [[Graz]] (Austria) | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Insect]]a | ordo = [[Lepidoptera]] | subordo = [[Glossata]] | infraordo = [[Heteroneura]] | zoodivisio = [[Ditrysia]] | superfamilia = [[Tineoidea]] | familia = '''Tineidae''' | familia_authority = Latreille, 1810 | type_genus = ''[[Tinea (moth)|Tinea]]'' | type_genus_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies | subdivision = [[Dryadaulinae]]<br /> [[Erechthiinae]]<br /> [[Euplocaminae]]<br /> [[Hapsiferinae]]<br /> [[Harmacloninae]]<br /> [[Hieroxestinae]]<br /> [[Meessiinae]]<br /> [[Myrmecozelinae]]<br /> [[Nemapogoninae]]<br /> [[Perissomasticinae]]<br /> [[Scardiinae]]<br /> [[Setomorphinae]]<br /> [[Siloscinae]]<br /> [[Stathmopolitinae]]<br /> [[Teichobiinae]]<br /> [[Tineinae]]<br /> and see [[#Genera incertae sedis|text]] }} '''Tineidae''' (or '''clothes moth''') is a [[family (biology)|family]] of [[moths]]. They are known as '''fungus moths''' or '''tineid moths'''. There are more than 3,000 [[species]] in over 300 [[genera]]. Most of the tineid moths are small or medium-sized. They have [[wing]]s. They are common in the [[Palaearctic]]. Others found elsewhere were [[introduced species|introduced]] Tineids eat living plants, [[fungi]], [[lichens]], and [[detritus]]. The best-known members of the family are the clothes moths. They eat stored [[fabric]]s. The most widespread species are the [[common clothes moth]] (''Tineola bisselliella''), the [[case-bearing clothes moth]] (''Tinea pellionella'') and the [[carpet moth]] (''Trichophaga tapetzella''). The [[brown-dotted clothes moth]]s (''Niditinea fuscella'') feeds on [[feathers]] in a [[bird]]'s [[nest]]. The [[genus]] ''[[Ceratophaga]]'', feeds on dead animals such as [[mammals]] and the shells of dead [[tortoises]]. == Books == *Dugdale, J.S., 1988. Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue and