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Micropterigidae Herrich-Schaffer
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- 1. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.
Description
Family Micropterigidae Herrich-Schäffer
The family Micropterigidae comprises 25 genera and more than 170 species (van Nieukerken 2011; Davis & Landry 2012; Zeller & Huemer 2015; Zeller-Lukashort et al. 2013; Gibbs 2014; Zeller et al. 2016; Ngô-Muller et al. 2020; Zhang et al. 2020; Han et al. 2024) with the highest generic diversity in East Asian region of North Hemisphere (Hashimoto 2006), where seven genera were recognized, and in Australasian region of South Hemisphere, where this family is represented by six genera(Gibbs2010, 2014).In the Palaearctic, the largest number of genera is represented in Japan, where, in addition to Micropterix Hübner four genera more (Paramartyria Issiki, Issikiomartyria Hashimoto, Kurokopteryx Hashimoto and Neomicropteryx Issiki) are known, currently including 17 species (Hashimoto 2013). In Europe micropterigid moths are represented by the type genus only which includes more than 50 species with greatest species diversity in the Mediterranean region (Zeller & Huemer 2015, Lepiforum 2025). In Russia, only the genus Micropterix is represented, but its species diversity is four times less than in Europe.
Notes
Published as part of Tarasova, Anastasiia A. & Ponomarenko, Margarita G., 2025, New data on Microlepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae, Adelidae, Glyphipterigidae, and Yponomeutidae) from the Far East of Russia, pp. 456-475 in Zootaxa 5715 (1) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.40, http://zenodo.org/record/17888570
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- Herrich-Schaffer
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
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- Micropterigidae
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- family
References
- van Nieukerken, E. J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I. J., Kristensen, N. P., Lees, D. C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J. C., Simonsen, T. J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S. H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B. A., Brown, J. W., Bucheli, S. R., Davis, D. R., De Prins, J., De Prins, W., Epstein, M. E., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hattenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J. D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A. Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M. V., Lafontaine, J. D., Lamas, G., Landry, J. F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K. T., Penz, C., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B. C., Sohn, J. C., Solis, M. A., Tarmann, G. M., Warren, A. D., Weller, S., Yakovlev, R. V., Zolotuhin, V. V. & Zwick, A. (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 (1), pp. 212-221. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.41
- Davis, D. R. & Landry, J. F. (2012) A review of the North American genus Epimartyria (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae) with a discussion of the larval plastron. ZooKeys, 183, 37-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.183.2556
- Zeller, H. C. & Huemer, P. (2015) A new species of Micropterix Hubner, 1825 from the Orobian Alps (Italy) (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae). Nota Lepidopterologica, 38 (2), 133-146. https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.38.5058
- Zeller-Lukashort, H. C., Werno, A. & Kurz, M. A. (2013) A new species of Micropterix Hubner, [1825] from southern Spain (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia, 41 (164), 489-494.
- Gibbs, G. W. (2014) Micropterigidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Fauna of New Zealand, 72, 1-127.
- Zeller, H., Kullberg, J. & Kurz, M. (2016) A new species of Micropterix Hubner, 1825 from Lebanon (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae). Nota Lepidopterologica, 39 (2), 101-107. https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.39.5148
- Ngo-Muller, V., Garrouste, R., Pouillon, J. M. & Nel, A. (2020) A new micropterigid moth from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Cretaceous Research, 109, 104375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104375
- Zhang, W., Deng, P., Wang, J., Zhang, P., Guo, Z. & Ren, D. (2020) A new jaw-moth (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 116, 104609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104609
- Han, N., Zhang, W., Fang, H., Wang, J., Shih, C. & Ren, D. (2024) Geometric morphometric analyses of Micropterigidae lineages (Lepidoptera) with two new species from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 160, 105897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105897
- Hashimoto, S. (2006) A taxonomic study of the family Micropterigidae (Lepidoptera, Micropterigoidea) of Japan, with the phylogenetic relationships among the Northern Hemisphere genera. Bulletin Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History, Series A, 4, 39-109.
- Gibbs, G. W. (2010) Micropterigidae (Lepidoptera) of the Southwestern Pacific: a revision with the establishment of five new genera from Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Zootaxa, 2520 (1), 1-48. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2520.1.1
- Hashimoto, S. (2013) Micropterigidae. In: Hirowatari, T., Nasu, Y., Sakamaki, Y. & Kishida, Y. (Eds.), The Standard of Moths in Japan III. Gakken Education Publishing, Tokyo, pp. 12 + 68-74.
- Lepiforum e. V. (Ed.) (2025) Yponomeutidae (Gespinstmotten) in ganz Europa. Bestimmungshilfe fur die in Europa nachgewiesenen Schmetterlingsarten. Available from: https://lepiforum.org/wiki/taxonomy/Yponomeutoidea/Yponomeutidae?view=0®ions=eu (accessed 26 June 2025)