 Cecidosidae

Cecidosidae is a little-known family of primitive monotrysian moths in the order Lepidoptera which have a piercing ovipositor used for laying eggs in plant tissue in which they induce galls, or they mine in bark (Davis, 1999; Hoare and Dugdale, 2003).Nine species occur in southern Africa, five species in South America (Parra, 1998) and "Xanadoses nielseni" was recently described from New Zealand (Hoare and Dugdale, 2003).