Eulepidotinae is a
subfamily
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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 family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...
. Adult males in the subfamily have
midtibial tufts of hairs. Adult females have the
ostial opening located between the seventh and eighth abdominal
sternites instead of located anteriorly on the seventh
sternite.
Taxonomy
Phylogenetic
In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...
analysis has determined that the Eulepidotinae are closely related to the
Hypocalinae
Hypocalinae is a subfamily 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 approximate ...
, and a clade of these two subfamilies is closely related to the
Calpinae
The Calpinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1840. This subfamily includes many species of moths that have a pointed and barbed proboscis adapted to piercing the skins of fruit to feed on ju ...
. The classification of genera into tribes within the Eulepidotinae has not been resolved.
Genera
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Anticarsia''
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Athyrma''
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Azeta''
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Epitausa''
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Ephyrodes''
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Eulepidotis''
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Goniocarsia''
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Herminiocala''
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Manbuta''
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Massala''
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Metallata''
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Obrima''
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Panopoda''
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Renodes''
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Syllectra''
References
Moth subfamilies
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