GRACILLARIIDAE
(midget, slender and some bent-wing micro-moths)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
GRACILLARIINAE slender micro-moths	Subfamily	5 subtaxa	17 images
LITHOCOLLETINAE midget micro-moths	Subfamily	9 subtaxa	80 images	2 ident. refs
PHYLLOCNISTINAE a subfamily of bent-wing micro-moths	Subfamily	1 subtaxa	2 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	GRACILLARIIDAE (midget, slender and some bent-wing micro-moths)
Superfamily	GRACILLARIOIDEA (a superfamily of ermel, midget and slnder 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)

GRACILLARIIDAE is also a member of:
Microlepidoptera - micro-moths (via Gracillarioidea)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Emmet, A.M., Langmaid, J. & Heath J.	1985	Cossidae to Helionidinidae (vol 2)	The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 2, 460pp, 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/
	Dickerson, B.	2007	The identification of leaf-mining Lepidoptera	http://www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Mine_Guide.htm
	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

GRACILLARIIDAE (midget, slender and some bent-wing micro-moths) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

GRACILLARIOIDEA
(a superfamily of ermel, midget and slnder 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 GRACILLARIIDAE (midget, slender and some bent-wing micro-moths)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 42 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for GRACILLARIIDAE (midget, slender and some bent-wing micro-moths)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

GRACILLARIIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Larvae/Leaf-miners

Microscopy

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)