Nepticuloidea

Nepticuloidea is a superfamily of usually very small monotrysian moths that are characterised by small or large eyecaps over the compound eyes. It comprises two families, the "pigmy moths" (Nepticulidae), with 12 genera which are very diverse worldwide and are usually leaf miners, and the "white eyecap moths" (Opostegidae), also worldwide but with five genera and about a ninth as many species, whose biology is less well known (Davis, 1999).

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Insecten De Nepticuloidea zijn een superfamilie van vlinders. De superfamilie telt ongeveer 1000 soorten, die over de gehele wereld voorkomen. Families en onderfamilies familie Nepticulidae (dwergmineermotten) onderfamilie Nepticulinae onderfamilie Pectinivalvinae familie Opostegidae (oogklepmotten) Onderfamilie Oposteginae Onderfamilie Opostegoidinae Bronnen, noten en/of referenties Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of the World

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taxon name: Nepticuloidea
Commons category: Nepticuloidea
taxon common name: モグリチビガ上科

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==References== Davis, D.R. (1999). The Monotrysian Heteroneura. Ch. 6, pp. 65–90 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.