Epicopeiidae
Family of moths
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Geometroidea |
Family: |
Epicopeiidae
Swinhoe , 1892 |
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Epicopeiidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera . They are known as oriental swallowtail moths as they closely resemble some oriental swallowtail butterflies (e.g. red-bodied swallowtails ). Epicopeiidae have highly varied structure in regards to body size and wing shape. Epicopeiidaen wing patterns are involved in complicated mimicry rings .
Genera
Former genera
- Epicopiopsis Grunberg, 1908
References
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- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera Genus Database
- Tree of Life
- Minet, J. and M. J. Scoble. 1999. The drepanoid/geometroid assemblage. Pages 301-320 in: Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Part 35. N. P. Kristensen, ed. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York.
- Joël Minet (2002). "The Epicopeiidae: phylogeny and a redefinition, with the description of new taxa (Lepidoptera: Drepanoidea)" (PDF) . Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr . 38 (4): 463–487. doi : 10.1080/00379271.2002.10697355 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-03 . Retrieved 2008-03-10 .
- Notes
- ↑ Wei, Chia-Hsuan; Yen, Shen-Horn (2017). "Mimaporia, a new genus of Epicopeiidae (Lepidoptera), with description of a new species from Vietnam". Zootaxa . 4254 (5): 537–550. doi : 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.5.3 . PMID 28609943 .
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