TINEIDAE
(tineid micro-moths)

Subtaxon		Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images
Morophaga choragella Large Clothes		Species		3 images
NEMAPOGONINAE a subfamily of moths		Subfamily	2 subtaxa	10 images
	Nemapogon a genus of tineid moths	Genus	2 subtaxa	10 images
TINEINAE a subfamily of moths		Subfamily	1 subtaxa	26 images
	Tinea a genus of tineid moths	Genus	1 subtaxa	26 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	TINEIDAE (tineid micro-moths)
Superfamily	TINEOIDEA (bagworm and tineid 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)

TINEIDAE is also a member of:
Microlepidoptera - micro-moths (via Tineoidea)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
Larvae/Leaf-miners
	Pitkin, B. Ellis, W.,Plant, C. & Edmunds, R.		The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects	www.ukflymines.co.uk
Microscopy
()	Pierce, F. N. & Metcalfe, J. W	1935	The genitalia of the tineid families of the Lepidoptera of the British Islands	The Northern Publishing Company
Stored Product Pests
	Mound, L. (ed)	1989	Common Insects of Stored Products: a guide to their identification	Economic Series, No 15, Seventh Edition edition, 68pp, British Museum (Natural History)

TINEIDAE (tineid micro-moths) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

TINEOIDEA
(bagworm and tineid 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 TINEIDAE (tineid micro-moths)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 9 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for TINEIDAE (tineid micro-moths)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

TINEIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Larvae/Leaf-miners

Microscopy

Stored Product Pests

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)