Cimeliidae

{{Short description|Family of moths}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Axia margarita.jpg

| image_caption = Axia margarita

| taxon = Cimeliidae

| display_parents = 5

| authority = Chrétien, 1916

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

• Axia
• Epicimelia

| synonyms = *Axiidae Rebel, 1919

}}

Cimeliidae, the gold moths (formerly known as Axiidae{{cite journal |author=Shen-Horn Yen & Joël Minet |year=2007 |title=Cimelioidea: a new superfamily name for the gold moths (Lepidoptera: Glossata) |journal=Zoological Studies |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=262–271 |url=http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/46.3/262.pdf |access-date=2007-10-29 |archive-date=2013-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004225050/http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/46.3/262.pdf |url-status=live }}), is a family of moths that is now placed in the macroheteroceran superfamily Drepanoidea,{{cite journal |last=van Nieukerken |first=Erik J. |author2=Lauri Kaila |author3=Ian J. Kitching |author4=Niels P. Kristensen |author5=David C. Lees |author6=Joël Minet |author7=Charles Mitter |author8=Marko Mutanen |author9=Jerome C. Regier |author10=Thomas J. Simonsen |author11=Niklas Wahlberg |author12=Shen-Horn Yen |author13=Reza Zahiri |author14=David Adamski |author15=Joaquin Baixeras |author16=Daniel Bartsch |author17=Bengt Å. Bengtsson |author18=John W. Brown |author19=Sibyl Rae Bucheli |author20=Donald R. Davis |author21=Jurate De Prins |author22=Willy De Prins |author23=Marc E. Epstein |author24=Patricia Gentili-Poole |author25=Cees Gielis |author25-link=Cees Gielis |author26=Peter Hättenschwiler |author27=Axel Hausmann |author28=Jeremy D. Holloway |author29=Axel Kallies |author30=Ole Karsholt |author-link31=Akito Y. Kawahara |author31=Akito Y. Kawahara |author32=Sjaak (J.C.) Koster |author33=Mikhail V. Kozlov |author34=J. Donald Lafontaine |author35=Gerardo Lamas |author36=Jean-François Landry |author37=Sangmi Lee |author38=Matthias Nuss |author39=Kyu-Tek Park |author40=Carla Penz |author41=Jadranka Rota |author42=Alexander Schintlmeister |author43=B. Christian Schmidt |author44=Jae-Cheon Sohn |author45=M. Alma Solis |author45-link=Maria Alma Solis |author46=Gerhard M. Tarmann |author47=Andrew D. Warren |author48=Susan Weller |author49=Roman V. Yakovlev |author50=Vadim V. Zolotuhin |author51=Andreas Zwick |title=Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 |journal=Zootaxa |date=23 December 2011 |volume=3148 |series=Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness |pages=212–221 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf |editor1-first=Zhi-Qiang |editor1-last=Zhang |ref=Zootaxa |access-date=23 September 2019 |archive-date=10 June 2014 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140610073925/http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf |url-status=live }} although previously placed in its own superfamily. Uniquely, they have a pair of pocket-like organs on the seventh abdominal spiracle of the adult moth{{cite book |author=J. Minet |year=1999 |chapter=The Axioidea and Calliduloidea |pages=257–261 |editor=N. P. Kristensen |title=Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies: Volume 1 Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches |publisher=Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York}} which are only possibly sound receptive organs.{{cite book |author=J. Minet & A. Surlykke |year=2003 |pages=289–323 |chapter=Auditory and sound producing organs |editor=N. P. Kristensen |title=Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies: Volume 2: Morphology and Physiology. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches |publisher=Walter de Gruyter, Berlin}} They are quite large and brightly coloured moths that occur in southern Europe and feed on species of Euphorbia. Sometimes they are attracted to light. The family was first described by Pierre Chrétien in 1916.