Oenosandridae is a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

of Australian noctuoid

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 ...

Genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

include: *'' Diceratucha'' *'' Discophlebia'' *'' Nycteropa'' *'' Oenosandra''

References

* Fullard, J.H. 2006: Evolution of hearing in moths: the ears of ''Oenosandra boisduvalii'' (Noctuoidea: Oenosandridae). ''Australian journal of zoology'', 54: 51–56

* Kuznetzov, V.I.; Naumann, C.M.; Speidel, W.; Stekolnikov, A.A. 2004: The skeleton and musculature of male and female terminalia in ''Oenosandra boisduvalii'' Newman, 1856 and the phylogenetic position of the family Oenosandridae (Insecta: Lepidoptera). ''SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia'', 32: 297-313. * Miller, J.S. 1991: Cladistics and classification of the Notodontidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) based on larval and adult morphology. ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'', (204)

Oenosandridae, Moth families {{Noctuoidea-stub