Omopterini
| Omopterini | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Erebinae |
| Tribe: | Omopterini Boisduval, 1833 |
The Omopterini are a tribe of moths in the Erebidae family.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy
The tribe was split from the Ophiusini tribe (also in the Erebinae subfamily) after phylogenetic analysis showed that the New World genera were not the closest relatives of the other genera in the Ophiusini.[1]
Genera
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zahiri, Reza et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.
- ↑ Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 Mar 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". Zookeys 40: 26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- ↑ Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (6 Feb 2013). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys 264. doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4443.