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.
Opostegidae or "white eyecap moths" is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera that is characterised by particularly large eyecaps over the compound eyes. Opostegidae are most diverse in the New World tropics.
Pseudopostega attenuata is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is probably a rather widespread species in the South American lowland tropics. The species is known from Costa Rica, north-western Brazil and south-western Ecuador.
Opostegoides gephyraea is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1881. It is known from New South Wales in Australia.
Opostega amphimitra is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is known from the area of the former Transvaal Province in South Africa.
Opostega cirrhacma is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is known from the area of the former Transvaal Province in South Africa.
Opostega diplardis is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is known from the area of the former Transvaal Province in South Africa.
Opostega idiocoma is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is known from Natal in South Africa.
Opostega praefusca is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is known from the area of the former Transvaal Province, South Africa.
Opostega radiosa is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is known from the area of the former Transvaal Province, South Africa.
Opostega stiriella is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1881. It is known from New South Wales, Australia.
Opostega symbolica is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is known from Natal, South Africa.
Opostega xenodoxa is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1893. It is known from New South Wales, Australia.
Pseudopostega adusta is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Walsingham, Lord Thomas de Grey, in 1897. It is known from the West Indies, from Cuba east to Dominica, south to Belize and Ecuador. It is also known from Costa Rica.
Pseudopostega bellicosa is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is known from the area of the former Transvaal Province, South Africa.
Pseudopostega clastozona is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is known from the area of the former Transvaal Province, South Africa.
Pseudopostega cretea is a species of moth in the family Opostegidae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1920. It is known from the eastern half of North America from southern Canada south to northern Florida, west to south-eastern British Columbia and Texas.
Pseudopostega quadristrigella is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Frey and Boll in 1876. It is known from Maine west to South Dakota and south to Texas.
Pseudopostega saltatrix is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Walsingham, Lord Thomas de Grey, in 1897. It was described from St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, but has an extremely wide range, from Cuba to Dominica in the West Indies, south from Belize to Ecuador, French Guiana and Paraguay.
Pseudopostega texana is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Donald R. Davis and Jonas R. Stonis, 2007. It is known from the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas, probably south into Mexico.
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