Ditrysia

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Ditrysia

Kamehameha

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Glossata
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
(unranked)	Ditrysia

Principal clades and Superfamilies

Ditrysia Borner, 1925

Simaethistoidea
Tineoidea
Gracillarioidea
Yponomeutoidea
Gelechioidea
Apoditrysia
- Galacticoidea
- Zygaenoidea
- Cossoidea
- Sesioidea
- Choreutoidea
- Tortricoidea
- Urodoidea
- Schreckensteinioidea
- Epermenioidea
- Alucitoidea
- Pterophoroidea
- Obtectomera
  - Whalleyanoidea
  - Immoidea
  - Copromorphoidea
  - Hyblaeoidea
  - Pyraloidea
  - Thyridoidea
  - Macrolepidoptera
    - Mimallonoidea
    - Lasiocampoidea
    - Bombycoidea
    - Noctuoidea
    - Drepanoidea
    - Geometroidea
    - Axioidea
    - Calliduloidea
    - Butterflies

The Ditrysia are a natural group or clade of insects in the Lepidopteran order containing both (butterflies and moths). They are so named because the female has two distinct sexual openings: one for mating, and the other for laying eggs. About 98% of described species of Lepidoptera belong to Ditrysia.

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[edit] Sources

Kristensen, N. P. and Skalski, A.W. (1999). Phylogeny and paleontology. Pages 7-25 in: Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Part 35. N. P. Kristensen, ed. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York.