| Scythropia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Yponomeutidae |
| Subfamily: | Scythropiinae |
| Genus: | Scythropia Hübner, [1825] |
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Scythropia is a genus of moths of the ermine moth family (Yponomeutidae). It is usually separated in a monotypic subfamily Scythropiinae, but sometimes included in the Yponomeutinae.
They are sometimes called "diamondback moths", which more often refers to Plutella xylostella of the fairly closely related Plutellidae.