{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Microdes squamulata.jpg |image_caption = ''Microdes squamulata'' Guenée, 1857, to MV light, Aranda, ACT, 20/21 September 2008 | taxon = Microdes | authority = Guenée, 1857<ref name="Global Lepidoptera Index"/> | synonyms = *''Oesymna'' <small>Walker, 1869</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="Global Lepidoptera Index"/> }}
'''''Microdes''''' is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.<ref name="Global Lepidoptera Index"/><ref name="Australian Faunal Directory"/><ref name=Savela/><ref name="Rajaei et al. 2022"/> They occur in Australia<ref name="Australian Faunal Directory"/><ref name=Savela/><ref name="Rajaei et al. 2022"/> and New Zealand.<ref name="Rajaei et al. 2022"/>
==Species== There are 13 recognized species:<ref name="Global Lepidoptera Index"/><ref name=Savela/><ref name="Rajaei et al. 2022"/> * ''Microdes arcuata'' <small>Swinhoe, 1902</small> * ''Microdes asystata'' <small>Turner, 1922</small> * ''Microdes decora'' <small>Turner, 1942</small> * ''Microdes diplodonta'' <small>Turner, 1904</small> * ''Microdes epicryptis'' <small>Meyrick, 1897</small> * ''Microdes haemobaphes'' <small>Turner, 1926</small> * ''Microdes leptobrya'' <small>Turner, 1939</small> * ''Microdes melanocausta'' <small>Meyrick, 1891</small> * ''Microdes oriochares'' <small>Turner, 1922</small> * ''Microdes quadristrigata'' <small>(Walker, 1862)</small> * ''Microdes squamulata'' <small>Guenée, 1857</small> * ''Microdes typhopa'' <small>Lower, 1897</small> * ''Microdes villosata'' <small>Guenée, 1857</small>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Australian Faunal Directory">{{cite web |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Microdes |title=Genus ''Microdes'' Guenée, 1857 |work=Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |access-date=17 October 2024}}</ref>
<ref name=Savela>{{cite web |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/larentiinae/microdes/#Microdes |title=''Microdes'' Guenée, 1857 |author=Savela, Markku |work=Lepidoptera and some other life forms |access-date=17 October 2024}}</ref>
<ref name="Global Lepidoptera Index">{{cite web |url=https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55434/taxon/262357 |title=''Microdes'' Guenée, 1857 |work=Global Lepidoptera Index 1.1.24.271 |date=27 September 2024 |access-date=17 October 2024}}</ref>
<ref name="Rajaei et al. 2022">{{cite journal |last1=Rajaei |first1=Hossein |last2=Hausmann |first2=Axel |last3=Scoble |first3=Malcolm |last4=Wanke |first4=Dominic |last5=Plotkin |first5=David |last6=Brehm |first6=Gunnar |last7=Murillo-Ramos |first7=Leidys |last8=Sihvonen |first8=Pasi |title=An online taxonomic facility of Geometridae (Lepidoptera), with an overview of global species richness and systematics |journal=Integrative Systematics |date=2022 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=145–192 |doi=10.18476/2022.577933|doi-access=free |hdl=10138/352532 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> }}
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Category:Eupitheciini Category:Geometer moth genera Category:Moths of Oceania Category:Taxa named by Achille Guenée
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