Nepticulidae is a family of very small moths with a worldwide distribution. They are characterised by eyecaps over the eyes. These pigmy moths or midget moths, as they are commonly known, include the smallest of all living moths, with a wingspan that can be as little as 3 mm in the case of the European pigmy sorrel moth, but more usually 3.5–10 mm. The wings of adult moths are narrow and lanceolate, sometimes with metallic markings, and with the venation very simplified compared to most other moths.
Ectoedemia hannoverella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from most of Europe to southern Siberia and European Russia, but it is most common in central Europe. It was not recorded in Great Britain until 2002 when mines were found in fallen leaves of Italian poplar.
Ectoedemia turbidella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from most of Europe, east to the Volga and Ural regions of Russia.
Ectoedemia hispanica is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is endemic to eastern and southern Spain.
Ectoedemia andalusiae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in France.
Ectoedemia algeriensis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Algeria, the Atlas mountains in Morocco and in southern France.
Ectoedemia haraldi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the Mediterranean Region from the Iberian Peninsula and southern France to Greece. It is also found on Corsica and Crete.
Ectoedemia ilicis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the western Mediterranean Region, in southern France and the Iberian Peninsula.
Ectoedemia heringella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the Mediterranean Region, from southern France, Corsica, Sardinia, and Italy to Cyprus. It was first recorded from Great Britain in 2002.
Ectoedemia alnifoliae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the Troödos mountains on Cyprus, Greece (Samos) and southern Turkey.
Ectoedemia minimella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widely distributed in the Holarctic.
Ectoedemia coscoja is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is endemic to Spain.
Ectoedemia heckfordi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Devon in Great Britain, having been discovered in 2004 at the National Trust's Hembury Woods by amateur naturalist Bob Heckford, for whom it is named.
Ectoedemia hendrikseni is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from a small area in the Provence region in southern France.
Ectoedemia phaeolepis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.
Ectoedemia vivesi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Spain (Andalusia) and Cyprus.
Ectoedemia pseudoilicis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread in mainland Greece and also present on Crete and in Turkey.
Ectoedemia reichli is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Greece, the Czech Republic, northern Italy, Slovakia, Croatia and Switzerland.
Ectoedemia similigena is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from its type locality, Jalta botanical garden, on the Crimea (Ukraine). The species has not been found again, and it is possible that it is actually a species from somewhere in Central or Eastern Asia, introduced with plants.
Ectoedemia degeeri is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Turkey.
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