Editing Lepidoptera (section)

=== Taxonomy ===
{{Main|Taxonomy of the Lepidoptera|Lepidopteran diversity}}

Taxonomy is the classification of species in selected taxa, the process of naming being called [[Biological classification|nomenclature]]. There are over 120 families in Lepidoptera, in 45 to 48 superfamilies. Lepidoptera have always been, historically, classified in five suborders, one of which is of primitive moths that never lost the morphological features of their ancestors. The rest of the moths and butterflies make up ninety-eight percent of the other taxa, making [[Ditrysia]]. More recently, findings of new taxa, larvae and pupa have aided in detailing the relationships of primitive taxa, phylogenetic analysis showing the primitive lineages to be [[paraphyletic]] compared to the rest of Lepidoptera lineages. Recently, lepidopterists have abandoned clades like suborders, and those between orders and superfamilies.<ref name="Resh and Carde"/>{{Rp|569}}

* [[Zeugloptera]] is a clade with [[Micropterigoidea]] being its only superfamily, containing the single family Micropterigidae. Species of Micropterigoidea are practically living fossils, being one of the most primitive lepidopteran groups, still retaining chewing mouthparts (mandibles) in adults, unlike other clades of butterflies and moths. About 120 species are known worldwide, with more than half the species in the genus ''[[Micropterix]]'' in the Palearctic region. There are only two known in North America (''[[Epimartyria]]''), with many more being found in Asia and the southwest Pacific, particularly New Zealand with about 50 species.<ref name="Resh and Carde"/>{{Rp|569}}
* [[Aglossata]] is the second most primitive [[lineage (evolution)|lineage]] of Lepidoptera; being first described in 1952 by [[Lionel Jack Dumbleton]]. [[Agathiphagidae]] is the only family in Aglossata and contains two species in its only genus, ''[[Agathiphaga]]''.<ref name="Resh and Carde"/>{{Rp|569}}<ref>{{cite book |author=Kristensen, N. P. |year=1999 |chapter=The non-Glossatan moths |pages=41–49 |editor=N. P. Kristensen |title=Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography |series=Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Part 35 |publisher=[[Walter de Gruyter]]}}</ref> ''[[Agathiphaga queenslandensis]]'' and ''[[Agathiphaga vitiensis]]'' are found along the north-eastern coast of [[Queensland]], [[Australia]], and in [[Fiji]] to [[Vanuatu]] and the [[Solomon Islands]], respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Agathiphaga_queenslandensis |title=Species ''Agathiphaga queenslandensis'' Dumbleton, 1952 |work=[[Australian Faunal Directory]] |date=9 October 2008 |publisher=[[Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts]] |access-date=31 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405014327/http://environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Agathiphaga_queenslandensis |archive-date=5 April 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{LepIndex |id=137590 |name=Agathiphaga vitiensis |access-date=May 8, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Heterobathmiina]] was first described by Kristensen and Nielsen in 1979. [[Heterobathmiidae]] is the only family and includes about 10 species, which are day-flying, metallic moths, confined to southern South America, the adults eat the pollen of ''[[Nothofagus]]'' or southern beech and the larvae mine the leaves.<ref name="Resh and Carde"/>{{Rp|569}}<ref>{{LepIndex |id=137659 |name=Heterobathmia |access-date=May 8, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Glossata]] contains a majority of the species, with the most obvious difference being non-functioning mandibles, and elongated maxillary galeae or the proboscis. The [[basal clade]]s still retaining some of the ancestral features of the wings such as similarly shaped fore- and hindwings with relatively complete venation. Glossata also contains the division [[Ditrysia]], which contains 98% of all described species in Lepidoptera.<ref name="Resh and Carde"/>{{Rp|569}}