NOMEN: Exoporia Common 1975: 196 [I.F.B. Common. Evolution and classification of the Lepidoptera. Annual Review of Entomology, 1975, 20: 183-203]
ORIGINAL SPELLING (Dugdale 1974): exoporian (Engl.)
SUBSEQUENT SPELLING (Common 1975): Exoporia (Lat.)
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Dugdale
1974, Common 1975):
Mnesarchaeoidea +
Hepialoidea 
TYPIFIED
NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Hepialus/fg (incl. Mnesarchaea)
TYPIFIED
NAMES IN USE:
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position and classification
of Exoporia:
| Neolepidoptera Exoporia Mnesarchaea/fg Macrojugatae Frenatae Adela/fg Nannoleptera Dirtysia |