Sabatinca is a genus of small primitive metallic moths in the family Micropterigidae. Palaeomicra and Micropardalis were both established as subgenera of Sabatinca, but were both raised to generic level by Joël Minet in 1985. However, in 2014 both these genera, Palaeomicra and Micropardalis, were recognised by George Gibbs as synonyms of Sabatinca. Extinct species in this genus are known from the Cretaceous Burmese amber.
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Sabatinca is a genus of small primitive metallic moths in the family Micropterigidae. Palaeomicra and Micropardalis were both established as subgenera of Sabatinca, but were both raised to generic level by Joël Minet in 1985. However, in 2014 both these genera, Palaeomicra and Micropardalis, were recognised by George Gibbs as synonyms of Sabatinca. Extinct species in this genus are known from the Cretaceous Burmese amber.
==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
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