Heteroneura
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| Heteroneura | |
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| Plume moth from family Pterophoridae on Boerhavia diffusa in Hyderabad, India. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Clade: | Neolepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
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Heteroneura is a clade in the insect order Lepidoptera that comprises over 99% of all butterflies and moths.[1] Its monophyly has been strongly supported by molecular evidence.[2] Heteroneura is the sister group to the infraorder Exoporia (swift moths and their relatives),[3] and is characterised by wing venation which is not similar— i.e., homoneurous—[4] in both pairs of wings.
Though early patterns of divergence within the Heteroneura have not yet been ascertained with much confidence,[5][2] the leaf-mining Nepticuloidea appear to be the sister group to all other members of the clade. Species in this subgroup include some of the smallest lepidopterans identified.[6]
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