NOMEN: Neolepidoptera Packard 1895 [A.S. Packard. On the phylogeny of the Lepidoptera. – Zoologischer Anzeiger, 1895, 18 (465): 228-236]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Packard 1895): Megalopygidae
+ Cochliopodidae + Hepialidae + Tortricidae + Cossidae + Thyrididae + Sesiidae + Tineolidae + Alucitidae + Pterophoridae
+ Pyralidina + Prodoxidae + Palaeporidae + Psychide + Tineina + Zygaenidae
+ Chalcosiidae + Lithosiidae + Nolidae + Arctiidae + Cyllopodidae + Dioptidae
+ Geometridae + Nyctemeridae + Syntomidae + Liparidae + Lasiocampidae + Perophoridae
+ Bombycidae + Endromidae + Platypterygidae + Notodontidae + Ceratocampidae
+ Saturniidae + Hemileucidae + Sphingidae + Hypsidae + Agaristidae +
Noctuida + Castaniidae + Hesperidae + Pieridae + Papilionidae + Lycaenidae
+ Nymphalidae
NON-MONOSEMANTIC CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM (distinctly including Neopseustis/fg1):
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Myoglossata Kristensen 1981
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Papilio/fg (sine Eriocrania; incl. Hepialus)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE:
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Neolepidoptera:
| classification by Packard 1895 | classification by Nielsen & Kristensen 1996 |
| Lepidoptera plesiomorphon Protolepidoptera Glossolepidoptera plesiomorphon Palaeolepidoptera Neolepidoptera |
Lepidoptera plesiomorphon Protolepidoptera Glossolepidoptera Palaeolepidoptera (s.str.) Coelolepida Acanthopteroctetes/fg Lophocorona/fg Myoglossata Neopseustis/fg Neolepidoptera (s.str.) |
Classification of Neolepidoptera s.str.:
| Neolepidoptera Exoporia Mnesarchaea/fg Macrojugatae Frenatae Adela/fg Nannoleptera Dirtysia |
COMMENT. When the taxon Neolepidoptera was established, Neopseustis/fg was not discovered yet. So the name Neolepidoptera can be used either in a wide sense (including Neopseustis/fg), or in a narrow sense (without Neopseustis/fg).