Drepanoidea

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Drepanoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Suborder: Glossata (unranked) Ditrysia Superfamily: Drepanoidea
Diversity
about 675 species
Families
Drepanidae Cyclidiidae Thyatiridae Epicopeiidae

Drepanoidea is the superfamily of "hook tip moths". There are about 129 genera, distributed worldwide. See Minet and Scoble (1999) for a comprehensive overview.

[edit] References

• Minet, J and Scoble, M.J. (1999). The Drepanoid/Geometroid Assemblage. Ch. 17 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.

[edit] Sources

• Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002

Arthropoda - Insecta - Superfamilies of Lepidoptera

Butterflies: - Hedyloidea - Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea Moths: - Acanthopteroctetoidea - Agathiphagoidea - Alucitoidea - Andesianoidea - Axioidea - Bombycoidea - Calliduloidea - Choreutoidea - Copromorphoidea - Cossoidea - Drepanoidea - Epermenioidea - Eriocranioidea - Galacticoidea - Gelechioidea - Geometroidea - Gracillarioidea - Hepialoidea - Heterobathmioidea - Hyblaeoidea - Immoidea - Incurvarioidea - Lasiocampoidea - Lophocoronoidea - Micropterigoidea - Mimallonoidea - Mnesarchaeoidea - Neopseustoidea - Nepticuloidea - Noctuoidea - Palaephatoidea - Pterophoroidea - Pyraloidea - Schreckensteinioidea - Sesioidea - Simaethistoidea - Thyridoidea - Tineoidea - Tischerioidea - Tortricoidea - Urodoidea - Whalleyanoidea - Yponomeutoidea - Zygaenoidea