| Micropterix igaloensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Micropterigidae |
| Genus: | Micropterix |
| Species: | M. igaloensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Micropterix igaloensis Amsel, 1951 | |
Micropterix igaloensis is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1951 and is only known from Montenegro. [1]
The length of the forewings is about 4 mm.
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.
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Ephelis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Loxostege is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Tegostoma is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Titanio is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
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 abchasiae is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae that was described by Aleksei Zagulyaev in 1983. It is only found in Abkhazia in Georgia.
Micropterix eatoniella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Heath in 1986. It is only known from the type locality Annaba in Algeria.
Micropterix islamella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1935. It is known from Palestine.
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.
Hypotia is a genus of moths of the family Pyralidae described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1847.
Khorassania is a genus of snout moths described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1951
Anacampsinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Gelechiidae.
Hans Georg Amsel was a German entomologist with four publications ranging from 1951 to 1962. His home town was Cologne, although he frequently was in Kiel. His original job was in the banking industry, and he later worked in a bookstore. After quitting his job as bookstore worker, he decided to follow his heart and transfer to zoology, where he became an entomologist. His specific profession was studying Lepidoptera. "Soon after he was appointed as Head of Department of Entomology at the Colonial and Overseas museum called to Bremen, then rendered military service and, worked as a private scholar, he came as entomologist at the State Collections of Natural History in Karlsruhe," states a letter for his 60th birthday from the Journal of the Entomological Society of Vienna. During Amsel's career, he authored about twenty-six different Lepidoptera species and genera, and published four books.
Margaroniini is a tribe of the species-rich subfamily Spilomelinae in the pyraloid moth family Crambidae. The tribe was erected by Charles Swinhoe and Everard Charles Cotes in 1889.
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