Noctuoidea

Taxonavigation

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

• not: Doidae - Micronoctuidae

Name

Noctuoidea Latreille, 1809

Synonyms

• Notodontoidea Stephens, 1829

References

• Latreille, P.A. 1809. Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata. Tomus quartus et ultimus. Parisiis: A. Koenig, 399 pp. BHL Reference page. 

cited sources

• Fibiger, M. & Hacker, H.H. 2005. Systematic List of the Noctuoidea of Europe (Notodontidae, Nolidae, Arctiidae, Lymantriidae, Erebidae, Micronoctuidae, and Noctuidae). Esperiana 11: 93–205. ISBN 3-938249-01-3. Reference page. 
• 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
• Lafontaine, J.D. & Schmidt, B.C. 2015. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico III. Zookeys, 527: 127–147. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.527.6151 Preview (PDF) reference page 
• Zahiri, R.; Kitching, I.J.; Lafontaine, J.D.; Mutanen, M.; Kaila, L.; Holloway, J.D.; Wahlberg, N. 2011 : 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
• Schmidt, B.C., Lafontaine, J.D. & Troubridge, J.T. 2018. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV. Pp 241–252 In Schmidt, B.C. & Lafontaine, J.D. (eds.) 2018. Contributions to the systematics of New World macro-moths VII. ZooKeys 788: 1–252. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.788.30148 Reference page. . doi: 10.3897/zookeys.788.28500 Reference page. 
• 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

العربية: فراشات ليلية
فارسی: جغدی‌واران
한국어: 밤나방상과
magyar: Bagolylepkeszerűek
日本語: ヤガ上科
русский: Совкообразные
suomi: Yökkösmäiset
українська: Совкоподібні
中文: 夜蛾總科

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