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.
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 aglaella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae.It is found in southern France, south-western Switzerland and northern Italy.
Micropterix allionella is a moth of the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794.
Micropterix corcyrella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Walsingham, Lord Thomas de Grey, in 1919. It is found in Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece.
Micropterix facetella is a species of moth belonging to the family —Micropterigidae that was described by Zeller in 1851. Micropterix facetella has a 4 male facetalla to 1 female facetalla ratio and during the mating season female facetella are said to visit a flower, only to eat, and the male facetella are there for the purpose to mate. For the common ratio, the male facetella goes to a near by location that another male facetella was already there as a pursuit of competition. A competition on who will get the female first. That is why there is 4 males facetalla for every 1 female facetella. It is known from Croatia and Slovenia.
Micropterix fenestrellensis is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by John Heath and T. Kaltenbach in 1984. It is known from Italy.
Micropterix klimeschi is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Heath in 1973. It is known from Rhodes and Turkey.
Micropterix osthelderi is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Heath in 1975. It is known from Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Denmark.
Micropterix rablensis is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae that was described by Zeller in 1868. It is probably restricted to Carinthia in Austria and to the adjacent areas of Styria in Austria and Italy and potentially of Slovenia. Its Croatian, Romanian and French existence is doubtful.
Electrocrania is an extinct genus of micropterigid moth. It is known from two species found in Eocene aged Baltic amber. The genus was originally described by Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov in 1941. The genus was subsequently synonymised with Micropterix, until a second species was described in 2015, which restored it as a distinct genus.
Micropterix trinacriella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae that was described by Michael A. Kurz, Hans Christof Zeller-Lukashort and Marion E. Kurz in 1997. It is only known from the area near the northern shore of Sicily, as well as in the surrounding of Mount Etna.
Micropterix cassinella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Michael A. Kurz, Marion E. Kurz and Hans Christof Zeller-Lukashort in 2010 and is endemic to Italy. At present, it is only known from the provinces of Lazio and Campagna in the central Apennines.
Micropterix gertraudae is an extinct species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Kurz M. A & M. E. Kurz in 2010. It is only known from the single type specimen in Baltic amber, which has been mined at Palmnicken near Kaliningrad.
Micropterix zangheriella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Heath in 1963. It is only known from the northern Apennines and has been found only in the Emilia Romagna so far.
Micropterix vulturensis is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Heath in 1981. It is widely distributed in the central and southern Apennines.
Micropterix renatae is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae that was described by Michael A. Kurz, Marion E. Kurz and Hans Christof Zeller-Lukashort in 1997. It is known from the Ligurian Alps, as well as the northern Apennine Mountains.
Micropterix wockei is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Staudinger in 1871. It is known from Greece.
Micropterix stuebneri is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Zeller, Werno and Kurz in 2013. It is only known from the Sierra Nevada in Spain.
Micropterix jabalmoussae is a moth of the family Micropterigidae. It is known from the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve in Lebanon, after which the species is named.
