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.
Neopostega asymmetra is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is known only from the type locality, in the Atlantic coastal forest in southern Brazil.
Neopostega longispina is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is known only from lowland Amazonian rainforest in southern Venezuela near the Brazilian border.
Neopostega falcata is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is known only from a lowland rainforest in north-eastern Costa Rica.
Neopostega distola is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is known only from south-western Brazil and northern Costa Rica.
Pseudopostega ovatula is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is known only from lowland and pre-montane Amazonian rainforest in east-central Ecuador.
Pseudopostega ferruginea is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is endemic to the West Indies, where it has been found in Puerto Rico and St. Thomas.
Pseudopostega abrupta is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is endemic to the West Indies, where it has been found on Guana Island and St. Thomas.
Pseudopostega gracilis is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is only known from primary rainforest in north-eastern French Guiana.
Pseudopostega tucumanae is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is only known from the province of Tucuman, in northern Argentina at an elevation of 800 meters.
Pseudopostega apotoma is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is only known from Minas Gerais and Pará in south-eastern and north-eastern Brazil.
Pseudopostega pexa is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is only known from north-eastern Brazil.
Pseudopostega diskusi is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is only known from the Cayo District of central Belize.
Pseudopostega albogaleriella is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is widely distributed through eastern North America from Nova Scotia to central Florida and south-eastern Texas and in the south-western United States through areas of California and Arizona.
Pseudopostega denticulata is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is only known from eastern and western Ecuador.
Pseudopostega kempella is a small, white moth of the family Opostegidae. The top of its forewings are each marked with a small, brown spot. It known only from the type locality of Key Largo in southern Florida.
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 constricta is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Donald R. Davis and Jonas R. Stonis, 2007. It is known from the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
Pseudopostega plicatella is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Donald R. Davis and Jonas R. Stonis, 2007. It is known from Pará in north-eastern Brazil and east-central Ecuador.
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
