Sabatinca

Sabatinca Temporal range: Cenomanian–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Sabatinca lucilia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Micropterigidae
Genus:	Sabatinca Walker, 1863
Species
see text.
Synonyms[1]
Palaeomicra Meyrick, 1885 Micropardalis Meyrick, 1912

Sabatinca is a genus of small primitive metallic moths in the family Micropterigidae.[1][2][3] Palaeomicra and Micropardalis were both established as subgenera of Sabatinca, but were both raised to generic level by Joël Minet in 1985.[4] However, in 2014 both these genera, Palaeomicra and Micropardalis, were recognised by George Gibbs as synonyms of Sabatinca.[1] Extinct species in this genus are known from the Cretaceous Burmese amber.[5]

Selected species

• Sabatinca aemula Philpott, 1924
• Sabatinca aenea Hudson, 1923
• Sabatinca aurantissima Gibbs, 2014
• Sabatinca aurella Hudson, 1918
• Sabatinca bimacula Gibbs, 2014
• Sabatinca calliarcha Meyrick, 1912
• Sabatinca caustica Meyrick, 1912
• Sabatinca chalcophanes (Meyrick, 1885)
• Sabatinca chrysargyra (Meyrick, 1885)
• Sabatinca delobelli Viette, 1978
• Sabatinca demissa Philpott, 1923
• Sabatinca doroxena (Meyrick, 1888)
• Sabatinca heighwayi Philpott, 1927
• Sabatinca ianthina Philpott, 1921
• Sabatinca incongruella Walker, 1863
• Sabatinca lucilia Clarke, 1920
• †Sabatinca perveta (Cockerell, 1919)
• Sabatinca pluvialis Gibbs, 2014
• Sabatinca quadrijuga Meyrick, 1912
• Sabatinca weheka Gibbs, 2014
• †Sabatinca pouilloni Ngô -Muller et al., 2020

References

1. George Gibbs (30 June 2014). "Micropterigidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 72. Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.72. ISSN 0111-5383. OCLC 917549814. Wikidata Q44902221. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2021.
2. Philpott, A. (1923). "The genitalia in Sabatinca and allied genera (Lepidoptera Homoneura), with some observations on the same structures in the Mecoptera". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1923 (3–4): 347–366 – via BUGZ.
3. Gibbs, George; Lees, David (2014-11-01), New Caledonia as an evolutionary cradle: a re-appraisal of the jaw-moth genus Sabatinca (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae) and its significance for assessing the antiquity of the island's fauna, pp. 239–266, ISBN 978-2-85653-707-7, retrieved 2021-11-02
4. "MICROPARDALIS - Butterflies and Moths of the World". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
5. Ngô-Muller, Valerie; Garrouste, Romain; Pouillon, Jean-Marc; Nel, André (May 2020). "A new micropterigid moth from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta: Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 109: 104375. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104375. S2CID 213533403.