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Ancestral taxa
Domain: Eukaryota /displayed  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Amorphea  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Obazoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Opisthokonta  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Holozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Filozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Choanozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Kingdom: Animalia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: ParaHoxozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Bilateria  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Nephrozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Protostomia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Panarthropoda  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Tactopoda  [Taxonomy; edit]
Phylum: Arthropoda  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Mandibulata  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Pancrustacea  [Taxonomy; edit]
Subphylum: Hexapoda  [Taxonomy; edit]
Class: Insecta  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Dicondylia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Subclass: Pterygota  [Taxonomy; edit]
Infraclass: Neoptera  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Eumetabola  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Holometabola  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Aparaglossata  [Taxonomy; edit]
Superorder: Panorpida  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Amphiesmenoptera  [Taxonomy; edit]
Order: Lepidoptera  [Taxonomy; edit]
Suborder: Glossata  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Coelolepida  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Myoglossata  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Neolepidoptera  [Taxonomy; edit]
Infraorder: Heteroneura  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Eulepidoptera  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Ditrysia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Apoditrysia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Obtectomera  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Macroheterocera  [Taxonomy; edit]
Superfamily: Bombycoidea  [Taxonomy; edit]


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Parent: Macroheterocera [Taxonomy; edit]
Rank: superfamilia (displays as Superfamily)
Link: Bombycoidea
Extinct: no
Always displayed: no
Taxonomic references: van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Lauri Kaila; Ian J. Kitching; Niels P. Kristensen; David C. Lees; Joël Minet; Charles Mitter; Marko Mutanen; Jerome C. Regier; Thomas J. Simonsen; Niklas Wahlberg; Shen-Horn Yen; Reza Zahiri; David Adamski; Joaquin Baixeras; Daniel Bartsch; Bengt Å. Bengtsson; John W. Brown; Sibyl Rae Bucheli; Donald R. Davis; Jurate De Prins; Willy De Prins; Marc E. Epstein; Patricia Gentili-Poole; Cees Gielis; Peter Hättenschwiler; Axel Hausmann; Jeremy D. Holloway; Axel Kallies; Ole Karsholt; Akito Y. Kawahara; Sjaak (J.C.) Koster; Mikhail V. Kozlov; J. Donald Lafontaine; Gerardo Lamas; Jean-François Landry; Sangmi Lee; Matthias Nuss; Kyu-Tek Park; Carla Penz; Jadranka Rota; Alexander Schintlmeister; B. Christian Schmidt; Jae-Cheon Sohn; M. Alma Solis; Gerhard M. Tarmann; Andrew D. Warren; Susan Weller; Roman V. Yakovlev; Vadim V. Zolotuhin; Andreas Zwick (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758" (PDF). Zootaxa. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. 3148: 212–221.
Parent's taxonomic references: van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Lauri Kaila; Ian J. Kitching; Niels P. Kristensen; David C. Lees; Joël Minet; Charles Mitter; Marko Mutanen; Jerome C. Regier; Thomas J. Simonsen; Niklas Wahlberg; Shen-Horn Yen; Reza Zahiri; David Adamski; Joaquin Baixeras; Daniel Bartsch; Bengt Å. Bengtsson; John W. Brown; Sibyl Rae Bucheli; Donald R. Davis; Jurate De Prins; Willy De Prins; Marc E. Epstein; Patricia Gentili-Poole; Cees Gielis; Peter Hättenschwiler; Axel Hausmann; Jeremy D. Holloway; Axel Kallies; Ole Karsholt; Akito Y. Kawahara; Sjaak (J.C.) Koster; Mikhail V. Kozlov; J. Donald Lafontaine; Gerardo Lamas; Jean-François Landry; Sangmi Lee; Matthias Nuss; Kyu-Tek Park; Carla Penz; Jadranka Rota; Alexander Schintlmeister; B. Christian Schmidt; Jae-Cheon Sohn; M. Alma Solis; Gerhard M. Tarmann; Andrew D. Warren; Susan Weller; Roman V. Yakovlev; Vadim V. Zolotuhin; Andreas Zwick (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758" (PDF). Zootaxa. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. 3148: 212–221.