Eupterotidae

Eupterotidae
	Panacela lewinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Bombycoidea
Family:	Eupterotidae; Swinhoe, 1892
Genera
	See text.
Synonyms
	Striphnopterygidae Wallengren, 1858; Phialidae Wallengren, 1865; Janidae Aurivillius, 1892; Hibrildidae Berger, 1958; Cotaninae Forbes, 1955; Tissangini Forbes, 1955;

Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order with more than 300 described species.^[1]

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

Subfamily Eupterotinae
- Tribe Cotanini Forbes, 1955
  - Cotana
  - Melanergon
- Tribe Eupterotini
  - Apha
  - Apona
  - Cyrtojana
  - Dreata
  - Eupterote
  - Ganisa
  - Janomima
  - Lasiomorpha
  - Lichenopteryx
  - Marmaroplegma
  - Melanothrix
  - Neopreptos
  - Nisaga
  - Palirisa
  - Pandala
  - Parajana
  - Phyllalia
  - Poloma
  - Preptos
  - Preptothauma
  - Pseudoganisa
  - Pseudojana
  - Teratojana
  - Trichophiala
- Unplaced to tribe
  - Bantuana
  - Paraphyllalia
  - Phiala
  - Schistissa
Subfamily Hibrildinae Berger, 1958
- Hibrildes
Subfamily Janinae Aurivillius, 1892
- Acrojana
- Camerunia
- Catajana
- Drepanojana
- Epijana
- Gonojana
- Gracilanja
- Hemijana
- Hoplojana
- Jana
- Malagasanja
- Pterocerota
- Rhodopteriana
- Stenoglene
- Striginiana
- Tantaliana
- Urojana
Subfamily Panacelinae Forbes, 1955
- Panacela
Subfamily Striphnopteryginae Wallengren, 1858
- Ebbepterote Oberprieler, Nässig & E.D. Edwards, 2003
- Striphnopteryx
Subfamily Tissanginae Forbes, 1955
- Tissanga
Unassigned
- Calapterote
- Papuapterote
- Paramarane
- Rarisquamosa

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.

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.[1]
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

External links

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

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[1] 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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