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The article focuses on the study of four families, Tineidae, Epermeniidae, Acrolepiidae, and Douglasiidae. Each family offers species of taxonomical and faunistical interest in which biological background and distribution are stated. Among the specimens cited within the four families are Monopis megalodelta, previously known only from the Afrotropical region and has been the first record from the Palaearctics, Tinissa insularia, known from the type localities in Java, Malaya, and Borneo, and Tinagma anchusellum, known from North Europe through Central Europe and Balcan peninsula to Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Ukraine.