Definition of Microlepidoptera. Meaning of Microlepidoptera. Synonyms of Microlepidoptera

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Definition of Microlepidoptera

Microlepidoptera
Microlepidoptera Mi`cro*lep`i*dop"te*ra, n. pl. [NL. See Micro-, and Lepidoptera.] (Zo["o]l.) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

Meaning of Microlepidoptera from wikipedia

- Microlepidoptera (micromoths) is an artificial (i.e., unranked and not monophyletic) grouping of moth families, commonly known as the "smaller moths" (micro...
- entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Edward Meyrick came...
- This is a list of microlepidoptera that are found in Israel. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths...
- on the microlepidoptera during this period and Philipp Christoph Zeller published The Natural History of the Tineinae also on microlepidoptera (1855)...
- Russian-American scholar, entomologist, and leading specialist of the tortricoid microlepidoptera. Obraztsov was born on 18 August 1906 in Rostov on the Don, Russia...
- they are tiny and were formerly included among the ****emblage called "microlepidoptera". The forewings of plume moths usually consist of two curved spars...
- most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae...
- This is a list of microlepidoptera which are found in Great Britain. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of...
- Traditionally used for the larger butterflies and moths as opposed to the "microlepidoptera", this group is artificial. However, it seems that by moving some taxa...
- the foundation for the identification of microlepidoptera. Meyrick donated his collection of microlepidoptera to the British Museum (Natural History),...