OPOSTEGIDAE
(bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	OPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths)
Superfamily	NEPTICULOIDEA (eye-cap micro-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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Emmet, A.M., Langmaid, J. & Heath J.	1983	Micropterigidae to Heliozelidae (vol 1)	The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 1, 343pp, Harley Books
	Johansson, R. et al	1991	The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera) of North and West Europe	Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 23, 740pp, Scandinavian Science Press

OPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap 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 OPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for OPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

OPOSTEGIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)