BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)

PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)

ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

HEXAPODA
(hexapods)

INSECTA
(insects)

PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)

Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)

Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)

LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

(Microlepidoptera)
(Micro-moths)

Microlepidoptera
is also a member of:

Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

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(Microlepidoptera) (Micro-moths)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon

Suborder	DACNONYMPHA (a suborder of micro-moths)	2
Superfamily	ERIOCRANIOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths)	2	8	42		5
Superfamily	ALUCITOIDEA (many-plume moths)	1	11	6		2
Superfamily	GELECHIOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths)	53
Family	AGONOXENIDAE (a family of micro-moths)					1
Family	AUTOSTICHIDAE (a family of micro-moths)	1	1		6	1
Family	BATRACHEDRIDAE (a family of micro-moths)					2
Family	BLASTOBASIDAE (a family of micro-moths)	1	6			2
Family	COLEOPHORIDAE (a family of micro-moths)	20	96	110	21	4
Family	COSMOPTERIGIDAE (a family of micro-moths)					3
Family	ELACHISTIDAE (a family of micro-moths)	2	6			4
Family	ETHMIIDAE (a family of micro-moths)					1
Family	GELECHIIDAE (a family of micro-moths)	5	4		2	6
Family	MOMPHIDAE (a family of micro-moths)	3	28	3		4
Family	OECOPHORIDAE (a family of micro-moths)	16	159	20	4	4
Family	SCYTHRIDIDAE (a family of micro-moths)					1
Superfamily	GRACILLARIOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths)	14	17	66	7	17
Superfamily	PTEROPHOROIDEA (plume moths)	8	40			5
Superfamily	PYRALOIDEA (grass and meal moths)	40	301	15	4	12
Family	CHOREUTIDAE (a family of micro-moths)	1	12	3
Superfamily	TINEOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths)	8	18	59	6	11
Superfamily	TORTRICOIDEA (cochylid and tortrix moths)	50	223	114	50	21
Superfamily	YPONOMEUTOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths)	16	114	12	6	17
Informal	(Nemapogon cloacella / Schiffermuelleria similella) (a pair of micromoths)	3	3		3
Suborder	EXOPORIA (swifts)	4
Superfamily	HEPIALOIDEA (swifts)	4	60	8		1
Suborder	MONOTRYSIA (a suborder of micro-moths)	15	106	25	5	24
Suborder	ZEUGLOPTERA (jawed micro-moths)	2
Superfamily	MICROPTERIGOIDEA (jawed micro-moths)	2	26			1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Corley, M.	The Families of British Microlepidoptera
Emmet, A.M. (Ed.), 1988	A Field Guide to the Smaller British Lepidoptera
Ford, L.T., 1949	A Guide to the Smaller British Lepidoptera
Photo gallery: Moths - micro lepidoptera: http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds4/photogallerythumbsmoths.htm	Photo gallery: Moths - micro lepidoptera
Microlepidoptera of Finland - an Overview: http://www.kolumbus.fi/silvonen/micro/index.htm	Microlepidoptera of Finland - an Overview
Sterling, P., Parsons, M. & Lewington, R., 2012	Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland
Suffolk Moth Group	British Micro-Lepidoptera
Leaf-miners
Anon	Lep Mines Crib Sheet
György Csóka, 2003	Levélaknák és Levélaknázók - Leaf Mines and Leaf Miners
Robbins, R., 1990	A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands
Plant galls
Darlington, A., 1968	A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 22 general literature references to (Microlepidoptera) (Micro-moths)

(Microlepidoptera) may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

INSECTA
(insects)

LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 327 feeding and other relationships of (Microlepidoptera) (Micro-moths)

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