Galactica Walsingham, 1911 Homadaula Lower, 1899 ?Tanaoctena Turner, 1913 Galacticidae is a recently recognised and enigmatic family of insects in the lepidopteran order.

These moderate sized moths are 8–17 mm in wingspan and have previously been embedded within several lepidopteran superfamilies (Tineoidea: Psychidae, Urodoidea, Sesioidea and in several families of Yponomeutoidea), but Galacticidae is currently placed in its own superfamily at the base of the natural group Apoditrysia (Dugdale et al., 1999 [1998]; May, 2004).

The genus Homadaula looks remarkably like the yponomeutid genera Prays and Atemelia and some species are reminiscent of "small ermine" moths.

The family is distributed in the Old World from Africa and Madagascar to Asia, Australia and New Caledonia.

The mimosa webworm (Homadaula anisocentra) is a pest of ornamental plants [3], which has been introduced to eastern North America (Moriuti, 1963; Dugdale et al., 1999).