Sabatinca

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Zeugloptera
Superfamilia: Micropterigoidea

Familia: Micropterigidae
Genus: Sabatinca
Species: S. aemula – S. aenea – S. aurantissima – S. aurella – S. bimacula – S. calliarcha – S. caustica – S. chalcophanes – S. chrysargyra – S. delobeli – S. demissa – S. doroxena – S. heighwayi – S. ianthina – S. incongruella – S. kristenseni – S. lucilia – S. pluvialis – S. quadrijuga – S. viettei – S. weheka – †S. pervetus
Name

Sabatinca Walker, 1863 Type species: Sabatinca incongruella Walker, 1863 by monotypy.
Synonyms

Micropardalis Meyrick, 1912
Palaeomicra Meyrick, 1885 (synonymized by Meyrick, 1912: 124)

References

Dugdale, J.S. 1988: Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa. Fauna of New Zealand, (14 )
Gibbs, G.W. 2014. Micropterigidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Fauna of New Zealand (72) DOI: 10.7931/J2/FNZ.72 Reference page.
Gibbs, G.W.; Lees, D.C. 2014: 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. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 206: 239–266. Full article (PDF) on ResearchGate Reference page.
Philpott, A. 1924(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. BUGZ

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 Sabathica.[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

George William Gibbs (30 June 2014). "Micropterigidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. 72. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.72. ISSN 0111-5383. OCLC 917549814. Wikidata Q44902221.
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.
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
"MICROPARDALIS - Butterflies and Moths of the World". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
Ngô-Muller, Valerie; Garrouste, Romain; Pouillon, Jean-Marc; Nel, André (May 2020). "A new micropterigid moth from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Cretaceous Research. 109: 104375. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104375.