TABLE 1. Notable historical publications of Lithocolletinae. 1758C. Linnaeus officially described the first Lithocolletinae species: Phyllonorycter rajella.1781J. C. Fabricius studied seven European lithocolletine species.1796–1838J. Hübner’s illustrations and descriptions of European Lithocolletinae is published.1839–1877P. C. Zeller publishes seven robust papers on European Lithocolletinae.1848–1867H. T.Stainton’s works on natural history of Lithocolletinae are published.1880–1939E. Meyrick’s described 55 exotic Lithocolletinae species of which 36 are still valid and his monumental systematic books on microlepidoptera are published1908–1929A. Braun differentiated genera within Lithocolletinae and revised North American Lithocolletinae.1951A. M. Hering’s study on biology of Lithocolletinae is published.1958–1998T. Kumata’s work on oriental Lithocolletinae and the character sets of generic and higher taxa.1961–2002L. Vári’s studies of the Afrotropical Lithocolletinae, including “South African Lepidoptera. Vol. I. Lithocolletidae ” his monumental work on African Lithocolletinae1965–2001G. Deschka published seventeen descriptions of new lithocolletine species.1981–2004V. I. Kuznetzov revised North East European and North Asian Lithocolletinae.1978–2011D. R. Davis published numerous papers on Nearctic Lithocolletinae and the systematics of the subfamily.1979J. Klimesch published his study on the lithocolletine moths from Canary islands.1980–2000A. M. Emmet and collaborators revised Lithocolletinae of Great Britain and Ireland.2005W. De Prins & J. De Prins catalogued all Lithocolletinae species of the world.2011B. Å. Bengtsson & R. Johansson revised Lithocolletinae of North Europe (Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden).

Published as part of Prins, Jurate De & Kawahara, Akito Y., 2012, Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), pp. 8 in Zootaxa 3594 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3594.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6052126