Heteroneura

Heteroneura is a natural group (or clade) in the insect order Lepidoptera that comprises over 99% of all butterflies and moths.^[1] This is the sister group of the infraorder Exoporia (swift moths and their relatives),^[2] and is characterised by wing venation which is not similar or homoneurous^[3] in both pairs of wings. Though basal groups within the Heteroneura cannot be identified with much confidence,^[4] one major subgroup is the leaf-mining Nepticuloidea. Species in this subgroup include some of the smallest lepidopterans identified.^[5]

Heteroneura
Plume moth from family Pterophoridae on Boerhavia diffusa in Hyderabad, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Clade:	Neolepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Subdivisions
Nepticulina Superfamily Nepticuloidea Eulepidoptera Incurvariina Superfamily Andesianoidea Superfamily Adeloidea Etimonotrysia Superfamily Palaephatoidea Superfamily Tischerioidea Ditrysia