Dioptinae is a subfamily of the moth family Notodontidae.
| Dioptinae | |
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| Dioptis cyma, the type species of the tribe Dioptini | |
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| Josia ligula, the type species of the tribe Josiini | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Dioptinae Walker, 1862 |
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The Dioptinae are an almost exclusively neotropical group of day-flying moths.[1][2]
Taxonomy
editThe subfamily was formerly placed in a separate family (Dioptidae). Furthermore, the tribe Josiini has been treated as a family (Josiidae) by Piepers & Snellen in 1900 and as a subfamily (Josiinae) by Kiriakoff in 1950.
Genera
edit- Tribe Josiini Miller & Otero, 1994
- Tribe Dioptini Minet, 1983
- Anticoreura
- Argentala
- Brachyglene
- Cacolyces
- Chrysoglossa
- Cleptophasia
- Dioptis
- Dolophrosyne
- Erbessa
- Eremonidia
- Eremonidiopsis
- Euchontha
- Hadesina
- Isostyla
- Momonipta
- Monocreagra
- Nebulosa
- Oricia
- Pareuchontha
- Phaeochlaena
- Phanoptis
- Phryganidia
- Pikroprion
- Polypoetes
- Pseudoricia
- Sagittala
- Scotura
- Scoturopsis
- Stenoplastis
- Tithraustes
- Xenomigia
- Xenorma
- Xenormicola
- Unplaced
References
edit- ^ Miller, James S (2009-06-30). "Generic Revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321: 1–674. doi:10.1206/321.1. ISSN 0003-0090. S2CID 86824329.
- ^ S, Miller J. (1991). "Cladistics and classification of the Notodontidae (Lepidoptera : Noctuoidea) based on larval and adult morphology". Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 204: 1–230.
External links
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