Carposinoidea

Copromorphoidea Meyrick, 1905 Carposinoidea, the "fruitworm moths", is a superfamily of insects in the lepidopteran order.

The antennae are often "pectinate" especially in males, and many species of these well camouflaged moths bear raised tufts of scales on the wings and a specialised fringe of scales at the base of the hindwing sometimes in females only; there are a number of other structural characteristics (Common, 1990; Dugdale et al., 1999) .

The position of this superfamily is not certain, but it has been placed in the natural group of "Apoditrysia"[1] "Obtectomera" (Minet, 1991), rather than with the superfamilies Alucitoidea or Epermenioidea within which it has sometimes previously been placed, on the grounds that shared larval and pupal characteristics of these groups have probably evolved independently.

The larvae pupate with the silken gallery or descend to the ground and make a cocoon covered in detritus (Dugdale et al., 1999).

The hostplants include the gymnosperm genus Podocarpus and quite a wide range of dicotyledon families [2] [3][permanent dead link‍].