''Epermenia infracta'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

in the family

Epermeniidae Epermeniidae or the fringe-tufted moths is a family of insects in the lepidopteran order with about 14 genera. Previously they have been divided in two subfamilies Epermeniinae and Ochromolopinae (e.g. Common, 1990: 321) but this is no longer m ...

. It was described by

Annette Frances Braun Annette Frances Braun (1884–1978) was an American entomologist and leading authority on microlepidoptera, a grouping of mostly small and nocturnal moths. Her special interest was leaf miners: moths whose larvae live and feed from within a leaf ...

in 1926. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from

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and

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Taxonomy

The species was previously treated as a synonym of ''

Epermenia strictella ''Epermenia strictellus'' is a moth of the family Epermeniidae. It is found in Europe (from the Iberian Peninsula to Poland, Romania and the Balkan Peninsula), as well as in North Africa, from Turkey, through Kyrgyzstan and the Tuva Region to ...

''. (2008)
"New species and records of the Nearctic Epermeniidae (Lepidoptera)"
''Tijdschrift voor Entomologie'' 151: 57-64.

References

Epermeniidae Moths described in 1926 Moths of North America {{Epermenioidea-stub