Micropterix
| Micropterix | |
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| Micropterix aureatella (Scopoli, 1763) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Micropterigidae |
| Genus: | Micropterix Hübner, 1825 |
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Micropterix is a genus of small primitive metallic moths, in the family Micropterigidae within the insect order Lepidoptera. The genus was created by the German entomologist Jacob Hübner in 1825 and the name comes from the Greek words mikros, meaning "little" and pterux, meaning "wing". The moths are distributed across Europe, south to North Africa and east as far as Japan.