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White Eye-capped Moths
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White Eye-capped Moths

Opostegidae

Opostegidae or "white eyecap moths" is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order that is characterised by particularly large eyecaps over the compound eyes (see also Nepticulidae, Bucculatricidae, Lyonetiidae). Opostegidae are most diverse in the New World tropics (83 described species, representing 42% of the world total).

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7 branches of this family, most-observed first

Pseudopostega

genusPseudopostega

Opostega

genusOpostega

Opostegoides

genusOpostegoides

Paralopostega

genusParalopostega

Eosopostega

genusEosopostega

Neopostega

genusNeopostega

Notiopostega

genusNotiopostega

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 176537.