Eupterotidae
Panacela lewinae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Family: Eupterotidae
Swinhoe, 1892
Genera

See text.

Synonyms
  • Striphnopterygidae Wallengren, 1858
  • Phialidae Wallengren, 1865
  • Janidae Aurivillius, 1892
  • Hibrildidae Berger, 1958
  • Cotaninae Forbes, 1955
  • Tissangini Forbes, 1955

Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species.[1]

Eupterotidae larva in Kerala

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

Former genera

References

  1. ^ van Nieukerken; et al. (2011). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 212–221.