Eupterotidae
Family of moths
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Panacela lewinae | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Bombycoidea |
Family: |
Eupterotidae
Swinhoe, 1892 |
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Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species. [1]
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Diversity
The family consists of four subfamilies and the unplaced Ganissa group . The subfamily Eupterotinae consists of about 11 genera, the Ganissa group about 10 genera, the subfamily Janinae about 16 genera, the subfamily Panacelinae consists of one genus and 3 species and the subfamily Striphnopteryginae of 15 genera.
Genera
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Subfamily
Eupterotinae
- Tribe Cotanini Forbes, 1955
- Tribe Eupterotini
- Unplaced to tribe
- Subfamily Hibrildinae Berger, 1958
- Subfamily Janinae Aurivillius, 1892
- Subfamily Panacelinae Forbes, 1955
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Subfamily
Striphnopteryginae
Wallengren, 1858
- Ebbepterote Oberprieler, Nässig & E.D. Edwards, 2003
- Striphnopteryx
- Subfamily Tissanginae Forbes, 1955
- Unassigned
Former genera
- Euchera
- Gastridiota
- Hypercydas
- Leptojana
- Messata
- Murlida
- Nervicompressa
- Pachyjana
- Paracydas
- Pugniphalera (= Neodrymonia Matsumura, 1920 )
- Sangatissa
- Sarmalia
- Sarvena
- Spalyria
- Sesquiluna
- Sphingognatha
- Tagora
- Thermojana Yang, 1995 (= Gangaridopsis Grunberg, 1912 )
- Vianga (= Viana )
References
- ↑ van Nieukerken; et al. (2011). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF) . Zootaxa . 3148 : 212–221.
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- Bouyer, Th. , 2012: Description de nouveaux Eupterotidae africains (Lepidoptera). Entomologia Africana 17 (2) : 2-14.
- Forbes, W.T.M. , 1955: The subdivision of the Eupterotidae (Lepidoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 98 (2) : 85-132.
- Nässig, W.A. & Oberprieler, R.G. , 2008: An annotated catalogue of the genera of Eupterotidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea). Senckenbergiana Biologica 88 (1) : 53-80.
- Nässig, W.A., & Schulze, C.H. , 2007: A second species with diurnal males of the genus Eupterote from Indonesia: Eupterote (Eupterote) splendens sp. n. from Sulawesi (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea, Eupterotidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 87 (2) : 189-194.
- Pitkin, B. & P. Jenkins . Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names and their Type-species. Natural History Museum.
- Oberprieler, R.G. ; Nässig, W.A. ; Edwards, E.D. 2003: Ebbepterote , a new genus for the Australian ' Eupterote ' expansa (T. P. Lucas), with a revised classification of the family Eupterotidae (Lepidoptera). Invertebrate systematics , 17 : 99-110. doi : 10.1071/IS02028
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