Callimorphina
| Callimorphina | |
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| Utetheisa pulchelloides imago | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Tribe: | Arctiini |
| Subtribe: | Callimorphina Walker, [1865] |
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The Callimorphina are a subtribe of woolly bear moths in the Erebidae family. Many of these moths are easily confused with butterflies, being quite brightly colored and somewhat diurnal. Their antennae are not thickened into "clubs", which is a typical characteristic of butterflies.
Taxonomy
The subtribe was previous classified as a tribe of the former Arctiidae family.
Genera
This list of genera in the subtribe were outlined by Da Costa & Weller[1] and by Dubatolov.[2]
References
- ↑ Da Costa MA, Weller SJ (2005) Phylogeny and classification of Callimorphini (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Zootaxa 1025:1-94
- ↑ Dubatolov VV (2006): Cladogenesis of tiger-moths of the subfamily Arctiinae: development of a cladogenetic model of the tribe Callimorphini (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) by the SYNAP method. Euroasian Entomological Journal 5(2):95-104 (in Russian)