EPERMENIIDAE
(lance-wing micro-moths, fringe-tufted moths)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	EPERMENIIDAE (lance-wing micro-moths, fringe-tufted moths)
Superfamily	EPERMENIOIDEA (lance-wing micro-moths, fringe-tufted moths)
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)

EPERMENIIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	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
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

EPERMENIIDAE (lance-wing micro-moths, fringe-tufted moths) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for EPERMENIIDAE (lance-wing micro-moths, fringe-tufted moths)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for EPERMENIIDAE (lance-wing micro-moths, fringe-tufted moths)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

EPERMENIIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Larvae/Leaf-miners

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)