Noctuoidea

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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Divisio: Ditrysia
Sectio: Cossina
Subsectio: Bombycina
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea
Familiae (6):
Erebidae - Euteliidae - Noctuidae - Nolidae - Notodontidae - Oenosandridae

• not: Doidae - Micronoctuidae

Name

Noctuoidea Latreille, 1809

Synonyms

• Notodontoidea Stephens, 1829

References

cited sources

• Lafontaine, J.D.; Fibiger, M. 2006: Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). Canadian entomologist, 138: 610-635. doi: 10.4039/n06-012
• Lafontaine, J.D.; Schmidt, B.C. 2010: Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys, 40: 1-239. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.40.414
• Zahiri, R.; Kitching, I.J.; Lafontaine, J.D.; Mutanen, M.; Kaila, L.; Holloway, J.D.; Wahlberg, N. (early view): A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). Zoologica scripta, doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00459.x Link

additional references

• Fibiger, M.; Lafontaine, J.D. 2005: A review of the higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) with special reference to the Holarctic fauna. Esperiana, 11: 7-92.
• Kühne, L., 2010: Taxonomische Ergebnisse der bearbeitung der nachtfalterfauna des südlichen Afrikas (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Esperiana Memoir 5: 433-456.
• Kuznetzov, V.I.; Stekolnikov, A.A. 2004: The musculature of the female terminal segments and its implication for the systematics of the superfamilies Notodontoidea and Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera, Noctuiformes). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 83(2): 286-307.
• Mitchell, A.; Mitter, C.; Regier, J.C. 2000: More taxa or more characters revisited: combining data from nuclear protein-encoding genes for phylogenetic analyses of Noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Systematic biology, 49: 202-224. doi: 10.1080/10635159950173816 PDF
• Speidel, W.; Naumann, C.M. 2004: A survey of family-group names in noctuoid moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Systematics and biodiversity, 2: 191-221. doi: 10.1017/S1477200004001409

Vernacular names

日本語: ヤガ上科
中文: 夜蛾總科

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