Taxonomy and systematics
Pleurotinae Toll, 1956 Deuterogoniinae Spuler, 1910 Unplaced Colchia Lvovsky, 1995 Also possibly included is the Peruvian species Auxotricha ochrogypsa, described by Edward Meyrick in 1931 as the sole member of its genus. In the past, the family was circumscribed more widely and included the following subfamilies:
Amphisbatinae (sometimes in Depressariinae) Autostichinae Depressariinae (including Cryptolechiinae) Hypertrophinae Metachandinae Oecophorinae (including Chimabachinae, Deuterogoniinae, Peleopodinae, Philobotinae) Stathmopodinae Stenomatinae
Some treatments include only the Oecophorinae and Stathmopodinae here, placing the others elsewhere in the Gelechoidea (typically in the Elachistidae, but occasionally as independent families). But this approach might make Elachistidae highly paraphyletic. Other authors go as far as to expand the Oecophoridae beyond the delimitation used here, including also such groups as the Ethmiidae and Xyloryctidae. The latter may indeed be part of a monophyletic Oecophoridae, but more research is required; the Ethmiidae on the other hand are more likely a distinct family. The mysterious genus Aeolanthes is also sometimes included in the Oecophoridae (as a monotypic subfamily Aeolanthinae), but its actual relationships are quite obscure. Some additional genera are also treated as Oecophoridae incertae sedis in recent studies:
Amseloecia Povolný, 1983 Callimodes Leraut, 1989 (Oecophorinae?) subgenus Orienta Lvovsky, 1995 Colchia Lvovsky, 1995 Luquetia Leraut, 1991 (Depressariinae?) Minetia Leraut, 1991 (Oecophorinae?) Odonna Clarke, 1982 Schiffermuellerina Leraut, 1989 (Oecophorinae?) Schiffermuellerina grandis (Desvignes, 1842) Zizyphia Chrétien, 1908 (Oecophorinae? Formerly in Gelechiidae) †Epiborkhausenites Skalski, 1973 (Bartonian age, Baltic amber, Lithuania)
