Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae, and Parachrostiinae

Abstract

This is the second part of a series of papers on the recently described family Micronoctuidae Fibiger, 2005. Part 2 includes the description of three new subfamilies: Belluliinae, Magninae, and Parachrostiinae; six new tribes: Belluliini, Medialini, Magnini, Faeculini, Duplexini, and Parachrostini; seventeen genera (fifteen new): Bellulia, Mediala, Melaleucia Hampson, 1900, Magna, Basalia, Palnissa, Bilinea, Angustia, Rustica, Indieditum, Faecula, Duplex, Parachrostia, Digita, Anellus, Taiwani, and Mimachrostia Sugi, 1982;, and two subgenera (one new: Contrasta). 62 species are treated (50 new). Ten new combinations are proposed. Two genera and twelve previously described species are redescribed. Two new species belonging to the Pollexinae Fibiger, 2007 are described here as additions. All taxa treated in this part occur in eastern, southern, or south-eastern Asia or Indonesia and inhabit tropical, subtropical, or temperate climatic zones.

Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)

“…However, both our results and those of Zahiri et al (2011) firmly locate it within the subfamily Hypenodinae of Erebidae, where, despite its many unique features, the group cannot be ranked with a status higher than tribe. Consequently, the subfamilies and tribes recognized by Fibiger (2007, 2008, 2010) have to be downgraded, with the subfamilies taking the status of subtribes. Micronoctuini contain over 300 Old World species, mostly in the tropics and subtropics, but extending to the Mediterranean, to temperate latitudes in eastern Asia and throughout the Indo‐Australian area to Australia and Vanuatu (Fibiger, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011).…”

On the species formerly assigned to Schrankia Hübner (Erebidae: Hypenodinae) in the Western Hemisphere, with the revalidation of Hypenopsis Dyar and descriptions of three new species

“…The Hypenodinae, including the Micronoctuini Fibiger, in Fibiger & Lafontaine (2005) (Zahiri et al, 2012) comprise more than 500 species distributed worldwide, with the greatest species richness (more than 400 species) in the Old World and most belonging to the Micronoctuini (Fibiger, 2007(Fibiger, , 2008(Fibiger, , 2010(Fibiger, , 2011Holloway, 2008). The subfamily has been diagnosed on the basis of the loss of ocelli (Fibiger & Lafontaine, 2005) and by two larval synapomorphies articulated by Beck (1999Beck ( , 2000.…”

Renaming ofBelluliaWang, Zhou & Zhou, 2016

“…Mr Nick Gardner (Potomac State College of West Virginia University) has informed us that the name Bellulia which we used to describe a new genus of basal ornithuromorph bird from the Early Cretaceous (Wang, Zhou & Zhou, ) is preoccupied by a species of moth. This was described by Fibiger () as a genus of moths of the Erebidae family, and the type species is Bellulia parabella . We therefore propose to substitute the name Bellulornis nom.…”