Micronoctuini

{{Short description|Tribe of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Fustius sterlingi, 香港青衣 imported from iNaturalist photo 289864616.jpg | image_caption = ''Fustius sterlingi'' | taxon = Micronoctuini | authority = Fibiger in Fibiger & Lafontaine, 2005 | synonyms = *Micronoctuidae Fibiger in Fibiger & Lafontaine, 2005 | diversity = About 400 species }}

The '''Micronoctuini''' are a tribe of moths in the family Erebidae that includes about 400 described species. Typical species in the tribe have bifine hindwing venation (unlike most of the related subfamily Hypenodinae) and are smaller than those in other noctuoid moths. ''Micronoctua karsholti'' is the smallest of all species in the superfamily Noctuoidea.

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 Noctuoidea showed that the phylogenetic placement of Micronoctuidae is as a clade within the subfamily Hypenodinae of the family Erebidae.<ref name="Z+2011">{{cite journal |last1=Zahiri |first1=Reza |title=Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) |journal=Systematic Entomology |date=2011 |volume=37 |pages=102–124 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x |s2cid=84249695 |display-authors=etal|doi-access=free }}</ref> 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 == {{Reflist}} *{{cite journal |last=Fibiger |first=Michael |date=1997 |url=https://archive.org/details/biostor-117023/mode/2up |title=''Micronoctua karsholti'' gen. et sp. n.: an astonishing small noctuid moth (Noctuidae) |journal=Nota Lepidopterologica |volume=20 |pages=23–30}} *{{cite journal |last=Fibiger |first=Michael |date=2007 |url=http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01567p116f.pdf |title=Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 1, Taxonomy of the Pollexinae |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1567|pages=1–116|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1567.1.1 }} *{{cite journal |last=Fibiger |first=Michael |date=2008 |url=http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01867p136f.pdf |title=Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae and Parachrostiinae |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1867 |pages=1–136|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1867.1.1 }} *{{cite journal |last=Fibiger |first=Michael |date=2010 |url=https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02583p119f.pdf |title=Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2583 |pages=1–119|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1 }} *{{cite journal |last1=Fibiger |first1=Michael |last2=Kononenko |first2=Vladimir S. |name-list-style=amp |date=2008 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01890p058f.pdf |title=Revision of the Micronoctuidae species occurring in the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1890 |pages=50–58|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1890.1.2 }} *{{cite journal |last1=Fibiger |first1=Michael |last2=Lafontaine |first2=J. Donald |name-list-style=amp |date=2005 |url=http://esperiana.net/mediapool/86/862516/data/Esperiana_Band_11_7-_92.pdf |title=A review of the higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) with special reference to the Holarctic fauna |journal=Esperiana |volume=11 |pages=7–92}} *{{cite journal |last=Fibiger |first=Michael |date=2011 |url=https://mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02842p188f.pdf |title=Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2842 |pages=1–188}}

Category:Micronoctuini Category:Hypenodinae Category:Moth tribes