Micropterigidae Herrich-Schäffer

Tarasova, Anastasiia A. & Ponomarenko, Margarita G., 2025, New data on Microlepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae, Adelidae, Glyphipterigidae, and Yponomeutidae) from the Far East of Russia, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 456-475 : 462

Family Micropterigidae Herrich-Schäffer

The family Micropterigidae comprises 25 genera and more than 170 species ( van Nieukerken 2011; Davis & Landry 2012; Zeller & Huemer 2015; Zeller-Lukashort et al. 2013; Gibbs 2014; Zeller et al. 2016; Ngô-Muller et al. 2020; Zhang et al. 2020; Han et al. 2024) with the highest generic diversity in East Asian region of North Hemisphere ( Hashimoto 2006), where seven genera were recognized, and in Australasian region of South Hemisphere, where this family is represented by six genera( Gibbs2010, 2014).In the Palaearctic, the largest number of genera is represented in Japan, where, in addition to Micropterix Hübner four genera more ( Paramartyria Issiki , Issikiomartyria Hashimoto , Kurokopteryx Hashimoto and Neomicropteryx Issiki ) are known, currently including 17 species ( Hashimoto 2013). In Europe micropterigid moths are represented by the type genus only which includes more than 50 species with greatest species diversity in the Mediterranean region ( Zeller & Huemer 2015, Lepiforum 2025). In Russia, only the genus Micropterix is represented, but its species diversity is four times less than in Europe.