[Microlepidoptera]
(micro-moths)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Exoporia
swift moths
Male (Click to open)
 		Infraorder 5 subtaxa 86 images 1 ident. refs
Apoditrysia
butterflies and most moths
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 		Clade 551 subtaxa 5,239 images 211 ident. refs
ALUCITOIDEA
many-plume moths
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 		Superfamily 1 subtaxa 17 images 2 ident. refs
CHOREUTIDAE
twitcher micro-moths
Family 1 subtaxa 15 images
CHOREUTINAE
twitcher moths
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 		Subfamily 1 subtaxa 15 images
PYRALOIDEA
grass and meal moths
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 		Superfamily 57 subtaxa 438 images 12 ident. refs
PTEROPHOROIDEA
plume moths
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 		Superfamily 9 subtaxa 41 images 5 ident. refs
TORTRICOIDEA
cochylid and tortrix moths
Female (Click to open)
 		Superfamily 64 subtaxa 468 images 15 ident. refs
GELECHIOIDEA
a superfamily of mainly leaf-miner micro-moths
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 		Superfamily 61 subtaxa 522 images 37 ident. refs
GRACILLARIOIDEA
a superfamily of ermel, midget and slnder micro-moths
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 		Superfamily 17 subtaxa 115 images 17 ident. refs
TINEOIDEA
bagworm and tineid micro-moths
Male (Click to open)
 		Superfamily 8 subtaxa 90 images 5 ident. refs
[Nemapogon cloacella / Schiffermuelleria similella]
a pair of micromoths
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 		Informal 1 subtaxa 6 images
YPONOMEUTOIDEA
small ermine, bent-wing, ermel and smudge micro-moths
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 		Superfamily 17 subtaxa 160 images 14 ident. refs
ZEUGLOPTERA
jawed micro-moths
Female (Click to open)
 		Suborder 2 subtaxa 26 images 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
Informal[Microlepidoptera] (micro-moths)
OrderLEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of [Microlepidoptera] (micro-moths) :
1: [Microlepidoptera] (micro-moths)
18 Jun 2003 OSGR: SU56 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
Heath trap 17/18 June 03
Image 1: Dorsal view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 2: Dorsal view - highly enlarged - pale background (2)Image 3: Lateral view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 4: Lateral view - highly enlarged - pale background (2)Image 5: Lateral view - highly enlarged - pale background (3)Image 6: Lateral view - highly enlarged - pale background (4)Image 7: Set specimen - highly enlarged - black backgroundImage 8: Set specimen - highly enlarged - pale background
2: [Microlepidoptera] (micro-moths)
15 Jun 2003 OSGR: SU56 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
Heath Trap 14/15 June 03
Image 1: Dorsal view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 2: Lateral view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 3: Set specimen - enlarged - black backgroundImage 4: Set specimen - enlarged - white background
3: [Microlepidoptera] (micro-moths)
15 Jun 2003 OSGR: SU56 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
Heath Trap 14/15 June 03
Image 1: Dorsal view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 2: Lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 3: Lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged - pale background (2)Image 4: Lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged - pale background (3)Image 5: Lateral view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 6: Set specimen - enlarged - black backgroundImage 7: Set specimen - enlarged - white backgroundImage 8: Ventral view - highly enlarged - pale background
4: [Microlepidoptera] (micro-moths)
28 May 2003 OSGR: SU56 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
Image 1: Dorsal view - enlarged - pale backgroundImage 2: Dorsal view - enlarged - pale background (2)Image 3: Lateral view - enlarged - pale background

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Berkshire Moth Group 2013 Common Micro-moths of Berkshire 143pp
Corley, M. The Families of British Microlepidoptera
Ellis, W.N. Plant Parasites of Europe: leafminers, galls and Fungi bladmineerders.nl
Lewis, C. British Lepidoptera britishlepidoptera.weebly.com/
Pendleton, T. & D. Photo gallery: Moths - micro lepidoptera www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds4/photogallerythumbsmoths.htm
Silvonen, K. Microlepidoptera of Finland - an Overview www.kolumbus.fi/silvonen/micro/index.htm
() Sterling, P., Parsons, M. & Lewington, R. 2012 Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland 416pp, British Wildlife Publishing
Suffolk Moth Group British Micro-Lepidoptera

Fieldcraft

() Emmet, A.M. (Ed.) 1988 *** A Field Guide to the Smaller British Lepidoptera ***(Superseded) 2nd, revised & enlarged edition, 288pp, British Entomological and Natural History Society
Ford, L.T. 1949 *** A Guide to the Smaller British Lepidoptera ***(Superseded) 230pp, The South London Entomological and Natural History Society
Langmaid, J.R., Palmer, S.M. & Young, M.R. 2018 A field guide to the smaller moths of Great Britain and Ireland 389pp, British Entomological and Natural History Society

Leaf-miners

Anon Lep Mines Crib Sheet
György Csóka 2003 Levélaknák és Levélaknázók - Leaf Mines and Leaf Miners 192pp, Forest Research Institute, Budapest
Robbins, R. 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands Benchmark Atlas Series, 1991? edition, 181pp, Warwickshire Museum Service

Plant Galls

() Darlington, A. 1968 A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour Blandford Press

[Microlepidoptera] (micro-moths) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1,175 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for [Microlepidoptera] (micro-moths)
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