The Magnina are a
subtribe
Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus. The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals) or -inae (in plants
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plant ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s of the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...
described by Michael Fibiger in 2008.
Taxonomy
The subtribe was originally described as the subfamily Magninae of the family Micronoctuidae.
Clades (former tribes) and genera
*''Magna'' clade
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Magna''
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Basalia
''Basalia'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth g ...
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Fibiger, 2008
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Palnissa
''Palnissa'' is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, ''Palnissa spatula'', is known from the Palani Hills of south-central India. Both the genus and the species were first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008.
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Bilinea
''Bilinea'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth g ...
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Fibiger, 2008
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Brevis''
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*''Faeculoides'' clade
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Rustica
''Rustica'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth ...
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Fibiger, 2008
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Indieditum
''Indieditum'' is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species,
''Indieditum subnilgiri'', is known from the Nilgiri Mountains of southern India. Both the genus and the species were first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008 ...
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Fibiger, 2008
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Faeculoides
''Faeculoides'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008. Despite containing some long-known species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organi ...
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Fibiger, 2008
References
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Micronoctuini
Lepidoptera subtribes
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