Howick is a town located in the uMgungundlovu District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The town is 1050 m above sea level, and about 88 kilometres from the port city of Durban. It enjoys warm summers and cool dry winters. A snappy chill descends upon Howick when snow falls on the nearby Drakensberg. The town is located on the N3 freeway, connecting it with the rest of South Africa.
Micropterix is a genus of small primitive metallic moths in the insect order Lepidoptera within the family Micropterigidae that is distributed across Europe south to North Africa and east as far as Japan. The name comes from the Greek for mikros, little and pterux, a wing.
(Orachrysops ariadne), the Karkloof blue, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Micropterix aureatella is a moth of the family Micropterigidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm, except North Africa.
Micropterix calthella, the marsh marigold moth, is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It is found in damp habitats throughout Europe and is also distributed eastwards to central Siberia. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761 as Phalaena calthella.
Micropterix aruncella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. This is one of the best known members of the family, being found in a wide range of habitats from sea level to over 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). The only habitat not favoured by this species is dense woodland. It is distributed throughout Europe except the Iberian Peninsula.
Charaxes karkloof, the Karkloof emperor, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Africa.
Tasmantrix phalaros is a moth of the family Micropterigidae. It is known from eastern Australia, in wet, upland eucalypt forests of northern New South Wales from Minyon Falls to Narara.
Agrionympha is a genus of small primitive metallic moths in the family Micropterigidae.
Agrionympha capensis is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Whalley in 1978. It is known from South Africa, where it is found in the Western and Eastern Cape districts.
Agrionympha vari is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Whalley in 1978. It is found in South Africa, where it is known only from the Mariepskop in the Mpumalanga Province.
Agrionympha pseliacma is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in South Africa, where it is known only from Karkloof Falls in Kwazulu-Natal.
Hypomartyria micropteroides is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Kristensen & Nielsen in 1982. It is known from the Osorno province in Chile.
Micropterigoidea is the superfamily of "mandibulate archaic moths", all placed in the single family Micropterigidae, containing currently about twenty living genera. They are considered the most primitive extant lineage of lepidoptera. The name comes from the Greek for mikros, little and pterux, a wing. The fossil record of the group goes back to the Middle-Late Jurassic with the earliest known species being Auliepterix from the Karabastau Formation in Kazakhstan.
Agrionympha fuscoapicella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by George W. Gibbs and Niels P. Kristensen in 2011. It is found in South Africa, where it is known only from Hogsback in the Eastern Cape. It occurs in tall dense rainforest, under the canopy but in light wells and margins where forest floor is damp and periphyton present.
Agrionympha karoo is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by George W. Gibbs and Niels P. Kristensen in 2011. It is found in South Africa, where it is known only from the Eastern Cape.
Agrionympha kroonella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by George W. Gibbs and Niels P. Kristensen in 2011. It is found in South Africa, where it is known only from the Drakensberg Ranges in the Mpumalanga Province.
Agrionympha pseudovari is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by George W. Gibbs and Niels P. Kristensen in 2011. It is found in South Africa, where it is known only from the Western Cape.
Agrionympha sagittella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by George W. Gibbs and Niels P. Kristensen in 2011. It is found in South Africa, where it is known from the Hogsback and Ngadu Forests in the Eastern Cape.
Prototheora parachlora is a species of moth of the family Prototheoridae. It is found in South Africa, where it is only known from the Karkloof Forest region of KwaZulu-Natal.
