Ophiusini

Ophiusini
The Passenger, Dysgonia algira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Erebinae
Tribe: Ophiusini
Guenée, 1837
Synonyms
  • Achaeini
  • Anuini
  • Cerocalini
  • Dermaleipini
  • Ophiusina
  • Pericymatini
  • Polydesmini

Synonyms[1]

The Ophiusini are a tribe of moths in the Erebidae family.

Taxonomy

The tribe is one of the most successful of the major radiations of the Erebinae subfamily. The tribe was previously classified as the Ophiusina subtribe of the Catocalinae subfamily of the Noctuidae family. Phylogenetic studies have shown that the Ophiusini are closely related to the Poaphilini tribe, and both these tribes are best placed in the Erebinae subfamily of the Erebidae family. Many New World genera in the former Ophiusina were split into the Omopterini tribe after the phylogenetic studies determined that the New and Old World genera were not as closely related to each other as they are to genera in other tribes of the Erebinae.[2][3][4]

Genera

The following genera are included in the tribe.[5]

References

Data related to Ophiusini at Wikispecies

  1. ↑ See references in Savela (2011)
  2. ↑ Zahiri, Reza et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ FE (2011), Wikispecies (2011-JUN-28), and see references in Savela (2011)