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==Description and affinities== [[File:Lampronia corticella1.jpg|thumb|left|180px|''Lampronia corticella'']] '''Prodoxidae''' are a family of primitive [[monotrysia]]n [[Lepidoptera]]. Some of these small-to-medium-sized moths are day flying, like ''[[Lampronia capitella]]'', known to European gardeners as the currant shoot borer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=1443 |title=Currant Shoot Borer Lampronia capitella |publisher=UKMoths |access-date=2012-07-31}}</ref> Others occur in [[Africa]] and [[Asia]]. The other common genera are generally confined to dry areas of the United States. ''[[Tetragma gei]]'' feeds on mountain avens (''[[Geum triflorum]]'') in the US. ''[[Greya politella]]'' lay eggs in the flowers of [[Saxifragaceae]] there. ''[[Prodoxoides asymmetra]]'' occurs in [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]],<ref name=Nielsen-Davis-1985>{{cite journal |last1=Nielsen |first1=Ebbe Schmidt |author1-link=Ebbe Nielsen |last2=Davis |first2=Donald R. |author2-link=Donald R. Davis (entomologist) |date=1985 |title=The first southern hemisphere prodoxid and the phylogeny of the Incurvarioidea (Lepidoptera) |journal=Systematic Entomology |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=307β322 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.1985.tb00140.x |bibcode=1985SysEn..10..307N |s2cid=86821657 }}</ref> but all other prodoxid moth genera have a northern distribution. The enigmatic genus ''[[Tridentaforma]]'' is sometimes placed here and assumed to be close to ''[[Lampronia]]'', while other authors consider it ''[[incertae sedis]]'' among the closely related family [[Adelidae]].
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