The Micronoctuini are a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

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 ...

that includes about 400 described

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

. Typical species in the tribe have bifine hindwing venation (unlike most of the related subfamily

Hypenodinae The Hypenodinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae. Adult moths of most species of this subfamily lack small, ocellus, simple eyes near the large, compound eyes and have quadrifine (four-veined) hindwing cells. The Micronoctuini, mi ...

) and are smaller than those in other noctuoid moths. '' Micronoctua karsholti'' is the smallest of all species in the superfamily

Noctuoidea Noctuoidea is the superfamily of noctuid (Latin "night owl") or "owlet" moths, and has more than 70,000 described species, the largest number of any Lepidopteran superfamily. Its classification has not yet reached a satisfactory or stable stat ...

. An extensive, four-part revision of the Micronoctuidae was published by Michael Fibiger from 2007 to 2011 (see References section), describing dozens of species for their first time and classifying them into subfamilies and tribes. A subsequent series of studies of the higher-level classification of the superfamily

showed that the phylogenetic placement of Micronoctuidae is as a clade within the subfamily

of the family

. This reclassification moved Micronoctuidae to the tribe Micronoctuini, its subfamilies to subtribes, and presumably its original tribes to infratribes.

Subtribes (former subfamilies)

* Belluliina Fibiger, 2008 * Magnina Fibiger, 2008 * Micronoctuina Fibiger, 2005 * Parachrostiina Fibiger, 2008 * Pollexina Fibiger, 2007 * Tactusina Fibiger, 2010 * Tentaxina Fibiger, 2011

References

* * * * * * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q19591080 Hypenodinae Moth tribes