Catocalini
Appearance
Catocalini | |
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Spiloloma lunilinea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Erebinae |
Tribe: | Catocalini Boisduval, [1828] |
Synonyms | |
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The Catocalini are a tribe of moths in the family Erebidae.[1][2] Adults of many species in the tribe are called underwing moths due to their vividly colored hindwings that are often covered by contrastingly dark, drab forewings.
Taxonomy
[edit]The tribe is most closely related to the tribe Audeini, also within the Erebinae.[1]
Genera
[edit]- Archaeopilocornus Kühne, 2005
- Catocala
- Spiloloma
- Tachosa
- Ulotrichopus
Former genera
[edit]References
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- ^ a b Zahiri, Reza; et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 37: 102–124. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.
- ^ Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 Mar 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 26. Bibcode:2010ZooK...40....1L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.