The Abrostolini are a small
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s in the
Plusiinae
Plusiinae is a smallish (for noctuid standards) subfamily of the moth family Noctuidae. As the Noctuidae appear to be a paraphyletic assemblage, the Plusiinae may eventually be raised to family status (Weller ''et al.'' 1994).
Comparison of E ...
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
, consisting of the genera ''
Abrostola'' and ''
Mouralia''.
[Kravchenko, V. D., Ronkay, L., Behounek, G., & Mueller, G. C. (2015). PLusiinae (Excl. Abrostolini)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Ethiopia. A faunistical survey with biogeographical comments. ''Zootaxa'', ''4013''(2), 235-251.]
References
Plusiinae
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