Dioptinae
Subfamily of moths
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Dioptinae is a subfamily of the moth family Notodontidae.
| Dioptinae | |
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| Dioptis cyma, the type species of the tribe Dioptini | |
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| Josia ligula, the type species of the tribe Josiini | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Dioptinae Walker, 1862 |
| Genera | |
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The Dioptinae are an almost exclusively neotropical group of day-flying moths.[1][2]
Taxonomy
The subfamily was formerly placed in a separate family (Dioptidae). Furthermore, the tribe Josiini has been treated as a family (Josiidae) by Piepers & Snellen in 1900 and as a subfamily (Josiinae) by Kiriakoff in 1950.
Genera
- Tribe Josiini Miller & Otero, 1994
- Tribe Dioptini Minet, 1983
- Anticoreura
- Argentala
- Brachyglene
- Cacolyces
- Chrysoglossa
- Cleptophasia
- Dioptis
- Dolophrosyne
- Erbessa
- Eremonidia
- Eremonidiopsis
- Euchontha
- Hadesina
- Isostyla
- Momonipta
- Monocreagra
- Nebulosa
- Oricia
- Pareuchontha
- Phaeochlaena
- Phanoptis
- Phryganidia
- Pikroprion
- Polypoetes
- Pseudoricia
- Sagittala
- Scotura
- Scoturopsis
- Stenoplastis
- Tithraustes
- Xenomigia
- Xenorma
- Xenormicola
- Unplaced
