Micrarctiina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Micrarctiina
Seitz, 1910

The Micrarctiina are a subtribe of woolly bear moths in the family Erebidae. 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. 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.[1]

References

  1. Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194.


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