Araeolepia
Walsingham, 1881
Araeolepia is a of small in the Glyphipterigidae, Acrolepiinae. The genus was established by Walsingham in 1881. It belongs to the superfamily Yponomeutoidea, a group of microlepidoptera. Very few observations of this genus exist in public databases, suggesting it is either rare, poorly sampled, or restricted to specific .
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Taxonomic uncertainty
placement of Araeolepia varies across sources: Catalogue of Life places it in Glyphipterigidae ( Acrolepiinae), GBIF in Plutellidae, and iNaturalist in Copromorphidae. This reflects ongoing taxonomic debate about the circumscription of families within Yponomeutoidea.
Data scarcity
Only 2 observations recorded in iNaturalist as of source date, indicating extremely limited public occurrence data for this .