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Micronoctua

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Micronoctua
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Micronoctua
Fibiger, 1997
Species:
M. karsholti
Binomial name
Micronoctua karsholti
Fibiger, 1997

Micronoctua is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Micronoctua karsholti, is known from southern Turkey, Cyprus, the islands of south-east Greece, and the northern Levant (including Lebanon, Syria and Israel). Both the genus and the species were first described by Michael Fibiger in 1997.

It is the smallest of all species of the superfamily Noctuoidea.

The wingspan is 6–9 mm.

Former species

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  • Micronoctua occi is now Parens occi (Fibiger & Kononenko, 2008)

References

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  • Fibiger, Michael (1997). "Micronoctua karsholti gen. et sp. n.: an astonishing small noctuid moth (Noctuidae)". Nota Lepidopterologica. 20 (1/2): 23–30.
  • Fibiger, Michael & Kononenko, Vladimir S. (2008). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae species occurring in the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1890: 50–58. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1890.1.2.
  • Fibiger, Michael (2011). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2842: 1–188.