Micropterigidae

Micropterigoidea
Micropterix aureoviridella (Höfner, 1898)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Zeugloptera Chapman, 1916
Superfamily:	Micropterigoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
Family:	Micropterigidae Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
Genera
See text
Diversity
About 180 species

Micropterigoidea is the superfamily of "mandibulate archaic moths", all placed in the single family Micropterigidae, containing currently about 20 living genera. They are considered the most primitive extant lineage of Lepidoptera (Kristensen, 1999).

Presumed phylogenetic relationships within Micropterigidae based on Gibbs (2010)

Genera

• Micropterix Hübner, 1825 (jr synonyms Eriocephala J. Curtis, 1839, Microptericina Zagulajev, 1983)
• 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 F. 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

References

• 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

• Tree of Life
• Microleps U.S.A. Nearctic