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

OPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

OPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyOPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths)
SuperfamilyNEPTICULOIDEA (eye-cap micro-moths)
InfraorderHeteroneura (an infraorder of moths and butterflies)
SuborderGLOSSATA (a suborder of 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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for OPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() 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:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to OPOSTEGIDAE (bent-wing micro-moths, white eye-cap moths):

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