Microminae

Microminae
Micromus africanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Neuroptera
Family: Hemerobiidae
Subfamily: Microminae
Krueger, 1922[1]

Microminae is a subfamily of neuropteran insects of the family Hemerobiidae.[1]

Includes the genera Micromus (with global distribution), Nusalala (with Neotropical distribution), Noius[2] (New Caledonia), and Megalomina (Australia and New Guinea).[3]

The subfamily is characterized by a single unambiguous synapomorphy, male abdominal tergites 9 and 10 fused (49:1), and two homoplasious transformations (23:1 and 37:1).[4]

Recent studies place Drepanepteryginae as the sister subfamily of Microminae, with its last common ancestor estimated to have lived between 131-141 million years ago. The same study places the last common ancestor of all Microminae somewhere in between 112 and 118 million years ago.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "ITIS Standard Report Page: Microminae". www.itis.gov.
  2. ^ Registry-Migration.Gbif.Org (2021). "GBIF Backbone Taxonomy". GBIF Secretariat. doi:10.15468/39omei. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ a b Garzón-Orduña, IJ; Menchaca-Armenta, I; Contreras-Ramos, A; Liu, X; Winterton, SL (20 September 2016). "The phylogeny of brown lacewings (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae) reveals multiple reductions in wing venation". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 192. Bibcode:2016BMCEE..16..192G. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0746-5. PMC 5029026. PMID 27645380.
  4. ^ Oswald, John D. (1993). "Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the World Genera of the Family Hemerobiidae (Insecta: Neuroptera)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 101 (2): 143–299.