Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The smaller and more simply organized moths, including, generally, the smaller Pyralidæ, the Tortricidæ, the Tineidæ, and the Pterophoridæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.
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There are several microlepidoptera, most are widespread in the Indo-Australian tropics and all are believed to have dispersed from the west.
Rapa Nui and Sala-y-Gomez subtropical broadleaf forests 2007
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