Neopseustidae is a small family of day and night-flying "archaic bell moths" in the
Lepidoptera order. They are classified into their own superfamily
Neopseustoidea and infraorder
Neopseustina. Four genera are known. These primitive moths are restricted to South America and South east Asia and their biology is unknown (Davis 1975; Davis and Nielsen 1980, 1984; Kristensen, 1999).
Nematocentropus appears to be the most primitive genus occurring in
Assam,
Myanmar and
Sichuan, China, three species of
Neopseustis are distributed from
Assam to
Taiwan, whilst
Synempora andesae and three species of
Apoplania occur in southern South America (Kristensen, 1999: 53-54). The morphology of the
antennae has been studied in detail (Faucheux 2005ab; Faucheux et al., 2006).