Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Pt 2: Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae, and Parachrostiinae (Zootaxa Vol. 1867, No. 1)

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This is the second part of a series of papers on the recently described family Micronoctuidae Fibiger, 2005. Part 2 includes the description of three new subfamilies: Belluliinae, Magninae, and Parachrostiinae; six new tribes: Belluliini, Medialini, Magnini, Faeculini, Duplexini, and Parachrostini; seventeen genera (fifteen new): Bellulia, Mediala, Melaleucia Hampson, 1900, Magna, Basalia, Palnissa, Bilinea, Angustia, Rustica, Indieditum, Faecula, Duplex, Parachrostia, Digita, Anellus, Taiwani, and Mimachrostia Sugi, 1982;, and two subgenera (one new: Contrasta). 62 species are treated (50 new). Ten new combinations are proposed. Two genera and twelve previously described species are redescribed. Two new species belonging to the Pollexinae Fibiger, 2007 are described here as additions. All taxa treated in this part occur in eastern, southern, or south-eastern Asia or Indonesia and inhabit tropical, subtropical, or temperate climatic zones.