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.
Stigmella minusculella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Denmark and Latvia to the Pyrenees, Corsica, Italy and Crete, and from Great Britain to Ukraine. It is also present in North America, where it is found in Ohio, New Jersey and Ontario.
Ectoedemia albifasciella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in all of Europe except the Mediterranean Islands. In the east it ranges to the Volga and Ural regions of Russia.
Ectoedemia atrifrontella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe except Iceland, Ireland, Belgium and most of the Balkan Peninsula. It is also present in the Near East.
Ectoedemia liebwerdella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It occurs locally in central and southern Europe, east to the Volga and Ural regions of Russia.
Ectoedemia longicaudella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from most of Europe, east to Belgorod and Kaluga in Russia. It is also present in the Near East.
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 amani is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in southern Norway, southern Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Macedonia.
Ectoedemia erythrogenella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from the coast of southern Great Britain and western France to the Iberian Peninsula, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Greece and Cyprus.
Stigmella diffasciae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in California, United States.
Stigmella unifasciella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in the United States in Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, Illinois, Texas and Massachusetts.
Enteucha basidactyla is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found along the south-western coast of Florida in the United States, as well as Dominica, Belize and Ecuador. It is likely that this species has a much wider distribution in the tropical forests of the Neotropics.
Trifurcula manygoza is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known to be from Croatia and north-western Greece. But is probably also present in other Balkan countries.
Trifurcula subnitidella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread in Europe southward to the northern border of the Sahara in Tunisia and eastward to the Crimea and Asia minor.
Ectoedemia flavimacula is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from the mountainous area near the Varzob River and the southern Vakhsh River valley in Tadzhikistan, near the border with Afghanistan.
Trifurcula squamatella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It was described by Henry Tibbats Stainton in 1849. It is found in most of Europe.
Trifurcula raikhonae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It was described by Puplesis in 1985. It is widespread in the Central Asian mountains, including the western and central Tyan Shan, the Gissar Range in Tadzhikistan, and the northern Kugitangtau mountains in Uzbekistan and in central Afghanistan. It is not found in lowland desert areas.
Ectoedemia marmaropa is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It was described by Annette Frances Braun in 1925. It is known from North America, including Utah, Wyoming, Ohio, Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, and California.
Ectoedemia rosae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in France and Norway (Vang).
Allophylus natalensis, commonly known as the dune false crowberry or dune false currant, is a species of plant in the genus Allophylus native to south-eastern Africa.
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