Noctuoidea

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Noctuoidea
Common Yellow Underwing, Noctua pronuba Linnaeus, 1758
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Suborder: Glossata Infraorder: Heteroneura (unranked) Macrolepidoptera Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Diversity
over 70,000 species
Families
Oenosandridae Notodontidae Noctuidae Pantheidae Lymantriidae Nolidae Arctiidae

Noctuoidea is the superfamily of noctuid (Latin "night owl") or "owlet" moths, and has the largest number of species described for any Lepidopteran superfamily. Its classification has not yet reached a satisfactory or stable state. See Kitching and Rawlins (1999) for a broad review.

[edit] References

Kitching, I. J. and Rawlins, J. E. (1999). The Noctuoidea. In: Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies, Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography, ed. N. P. Kristensen, pp. 355-401. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.

[edit] Sources

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

[edit] External links

• Tree of Life
• Noctuoidea classification
• Many pictures of species in Noctuoidea

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