Eupterotidae
Family of moths
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Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species.[1]
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| Panacela lewinae | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Bombycoidea |
| Family: | Eupterotidae Swinhoe, 1892 |
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Diversity
The family consists of four subfamilies and the unplaced Ganissa group. The subfamily Eupterotinae consists of about 11 genera, the Ganissa group about 10 genera, the subfamily Janinae about 16 genera, the subfamily Panacelinae consists of one genus and 3 species and the subfamily Striphnopteryginae of 15 genera.
Genera
- Subfamily Eupterotinae
- Tribe Cotanini Forbes, 1955
- Tribe Eupterotini
- Unplaced to tribe
- Subfamily Hibrildinae Berger, 1958
- Subfamily Janinae Aurivillius, 1892
- Subfamily Panacelinae Forbes, 1955
- Subfamily Striphnopteryginae Wallengren, 1858
- Ebbepterote Oberprieler, Nässig & E.D. Edwards, 2003
- Striphnopteryx
- Subfamily Tissanginae Forbes, 1955
- Unassigned
Former genera
- Euchera
- Gastridiota
- Hypercydas
- Leptojana
- Messata
- Murlida
- Nervicompressa
- Pachyjana
- Paracydas
- Pugniphalera (=Neodrymonia Matsumura, 1920)
- Sangatissa
- Sarmalia
- Sarvena
- Spalyria
- Sesquiluna
- Sphingognatha
- Tagora
- Thermojana Yang, 1995 (=Gangaridopsis Grunberg, 1912)
- Vianga (=Viana)
