Michael Fibiger

Michael Fibiger (29 June 1945 – 16 February 2011), Danish entomologist.

Author designation: Fibiger
In 2005 Michael Fibiger (Denmark) donated to our museum a part of his collection, which greatly improved our holdings, particularly in the family Noctuidae in Natural History Museum, Sars gate 1, 0562 OSLO Norway.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Fibiger, M. 1997. Micronoctua karsholti gen. et sp. n.: an astonishing small noctuid moth (Noctuidae). Nota lepidopterologica (n.f.) 20(1-2): 23-30. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Kobes, L.W.R. & Fibiger, M. 1997. A new species of African Noctuidae: Euxoa (Euxoa) haeberleorum sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Noctuinae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo (n.f.) 18(2-3): 159-164. Reference page.

Hacker, H.H., Fibiger, M. & Legrain 2002. Limacodidae, Uraniidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) from the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 9: 189–207. Reference page.
Nupponen, K. & Fibiger, M. 2002. Contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of Bombyces, Sphinges and Noctuidae of the Southern Ural Mountains, with description of a new Dichagyris (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae, Endromidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Noctuidae, Pantheidae, Lymantriidae, Nolidae, Arctiidae. Phegea 30(4): 121–185. Reference page.

Kobes, L.W.R. & Fibiger, M. 2003. A new species of the genus Griposia Tams, 1939 from the Ponto–Mediterranean area (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Hadeninae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo (n.f.) 24(4): 211-214. Reference page.
Stangelmaier. G., Wieser, C. & Fibiger, M. 2003. Ergänzungen zum Exkursionsbericht Nordiran 2001 mit Beschreibung von Dichagyris ilseae n. sp. (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae, Geometridae, Noctuidae) Carinthia II 193 (113(2)): 561–571. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Fibiger, M. & Hacker, H.H. 2005. Systematic List of the Noctuoidea of Europe (Notodontidae, Nolidae, Arctiidae, Lymantriidae, Erebidae, Micronoctuidae, and Noctuidae). Esperiana 11: 93–205. ISBN 3-938249-01-3. Reference page.

Fibiger, M., Sammut, P., Seguna, A. & Catania, A. 2006. Recent records of Noctuidae from Malta, with five species new to the European fauna, and a new subspecies. Nota Lepidopterologica 29(3/4): 193–213. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Fibiger, M. & Zahiri, R. 2006. A new species of Gortyna Ochsenheimer, 1816 from Golestan forests of Iran (Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 29(3/4): 215–220. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Lafontaine, J.D. & Fibiger, M. 2006. Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). The Canadian Entomologist 138(5): 610–635. DOI: 10.4039/n06-012 Reference page.

Fibiger, M. 2008: Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae, and Parachrostiinae. Zootaxa 1867: 1–136. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Fibiger, M., Stangelmaier, G., Wieser, C. & Zahiri, R. 2008. Dichonia jahannamah, a new species from Iran in the subgenus Griposia Tams, 1939 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Xyleninae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo (n.f.) 28(3-4): 121-124. Reference page.
Kononenko, V.S. & Fibiger, M. 2008: A new subgenus and three new species of catocaline noctuids from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Catocalinae). Zootaxa 1876: 19–28. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Hacker, H.H., Legrain, A. & Fibiger, M. 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenée, 1841 (Old World) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 14: 7–533. Reference page.
Fibiger, M., Kononenko, V.S. & Nilsson, D. 2008. Description of a new species of Lygephila Billberg, 1820 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Catocalinae) from Russian Far East and North China. Zootaxa 1922: 62–68. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Fibiger, M. 2010. Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae. Zootaxa 2583: 001–119. Preview Reference page.

Fibiger, M. 2011. Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae. Zootaxa 2842: 1–188. Preview Reference page.
Fibiger, M., Han, H.L. & Kononenko, V.S. 2011. Five new species and one new subspecies of Micronoctuidae from China, with a checklist of Chinese species, including Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea, Micronoctuidae). Zootaxa 2777: 41–53. Preview Reference page.