The Micrarctiina are a

subtribe Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus. The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals) or -inae (in plants). The first use of this word dates back to the late 19th century. An example of ...

of woolly bear

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...

. Many of these moths are of small or medium size and have bright-colored hindwings.

Taxonomy

The subtribe was previously classified as the tribe Micrarctiini of the former family

Arctiidae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

. In recent years, most of the genera of Micrarctiina have been moved to other (sub)tribes, leaving ''Micrarctia trigona'' as the only genus and species in the subtribe, although a second species was recently described, ''Micrarctia trigona'' (Saldaitis & Pekarsky, 2015). ''Micrarctia'' was placed in the subtribe Arctiina by Rönkä et al. in 2016.

References

Lepidoptera subtribes {{Arctiina-stub