Bombycina is the name for a subsection of
Ditrysian insects in
order
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
containing both
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
and
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 having a dorsal heart vessel. Subsection Bombycina contains generally larger sized moths and butterflies in the superfamilies
Bombycoidea,
Calliduloidea,
Cimelioidea,
Drepanoidea,
Geometroidea,
Noctuoidea, and
Papilionoidea, having spineless pupae.
[Capinera, John, editor (2008)]
Encyclopedia of Entomology
2nd ed., Springer Verlag, New York, page 664
See also
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Taxonomy of Lepidoptera
The insect order Lepidoptera consists of moths (43 superfamilies), most of which are night-flying, and a derived group, mainly day-flying, called butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea). Within Lepidoptera as a whole, the groups listed below bef ...
References
Ditrysia
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