Micropterigidae
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| Micropterix aureoviridella (Höfner, 1898) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Suborder: | Zeugloptera Chapman, 1917[1] |
| Superfamily: | Micropterigoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 |
| Family: | Micropterigidae Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 |
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| Diversity | |
| About 180 species | |
Micropterigoidea is the superfamily of "mandibulate archaic moths", all placed in the single family Micropterigidae, containing currently about twenty living genera. They are considered the most primitive extant lineage of lepidoptera (Kristensen, 1999). The name comes from the Greek for mikros, little and pterux, a wing.[2] The fossil record of the group goes back to the Middle-Late Jurassic with the earliest known species being Auliepterix from the Karabastau Formation in Kazakhstan.
Genera
- Micropterix Hübner, 1825
- Epimartyria Walsingham, 1898
- Issikiomartyria Hashimoto, 2006
- Kurokopteryx Hashimoto, 2006
- Micropardalis Meyrick, 1912
- Neomicropteryx Issiki, 1931
- Palaeomicra Meyrick, 1888
- Palaeomicroides Issiki, 1931
- Paramartyria Issiki, 1931
- Vietomartyria Mey, 1997
- Sabatinca Walker, 1863
- Agrionympha Meyrick, 1921
- Hypomartyria Kristensen & Nielsen 1982
- Squamicornia Kristensen & Nielsen, 1982
- Austromartyria Gibbs, 2010
- Tasmantrix Gibbs, 2010
- Zealandopterix Gibbs, 2010
- Aureopterix Gibbs, 2010
- Nannopterix Gibbs, 2010
- † Auliepterix Kozlov, 1989
- † Palaeolepidopterix Kozlov, 1989
- † Palaeosabatinca Kozlov, 1989
- † Parasabatinca Whalley, 1978
- † Baltimartyria Skalski, 1995
- † Moleropterix Engel & Kinzelbach, 2008
- † refers to extinct genus of moths.
References
- ^ van Nieukerken et al (2011) Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness, Zootaxa 3148, 212-221
- ^ Smith, Frank. "Microlepidoptera (Micro-Moths)". Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- Kristensen, N. P., and E. S. Nielsen. 1979. A new subfamily of micropterigid moths from South America. A contribution to the morphology and phylogeny of the Micropterigidae, with a generic catalogue of the family (Lepidoptera: Zeugloptera). Steenstrupia 5(7):69–147.
- Kristensen, N. P. (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41–49 in Kristensen, N. P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
Sources
- O'Toole, Christopher. 2002. Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders. ISBN 1-55297-612-2.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Micropterigidae.
- Tree of Life
- Microleps U.S.A. Nearctic
- Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. British insects: the families of Lepidoptera. Version: 29 December 2011 Detailed description and figures including wing venation.
