COLEOPHORIDAE
(a family of micro-moths)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Coleophora a genus of case-bearer micro-moths					Genus	22 subtaxa	229 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	COLEOPHORIDAE (a family of micro-moths)
Superfamily	GELECHIOIDEA (a superfamily of mainly leaf-miner micro-moths)
Infraorder	Ditrysia (butterflies and most moths)
Infraorder	Heteroneura (an infraorder of moths and butterflies)
Suborder	GLOSSATA (a suborder of moths)
Order	LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

COLEOPHORIDAE is also a member of:
Microlepidoptera - micro-moths (via Gelechioidea)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ellis, W.N.		Plant Parasites of Europe: leafminers, galls and Fungi	bladmineerders.nl
()	Emmet, A.M., Langmaid, J. & Heath J.	1996	Yponomeutidae to Elachistidae (vol 3)	The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 3, 452pp, Harley Books
	György Csóka	2003	Levélaknák és Levélaknázók - Leaf Mines and Leaf Miners	192pp, Forest Research Institute, Budapest
Larvae/Leaf-miners
	Anon.		British Leafminers	www.leafmines.co.uk/
	Pitkin, B. Ellis, W.,Plant, C. & Edmunds, R.		The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects	www.ukflymines.co.uk

COLEOPHORIDAE (a family of micro-moths) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

GELECHIOIDEA
(a superfamily of mainly leaf-miner micro-moths)

Ditrysia
(butterflies and most moths)

LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Microlepidoptera
(micro-moths)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for COLEOPHORIDAE (a family of micro-moths)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for COLEOPHORIDAE (a family of micro-moths)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

COLEOPHORIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Larvae/Leaf-miners

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)