Smerinthinae

Smerinthinae
Laothoe populi Species type for Smerinthinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Family: Sphingidae
Subfamily: Smerinthinae
Grote & Robinson, 1865
Type species
Laothoe populi
Linnaeus, 1758
Diversity
77 genera,
roughly 329 species

The Smerinthinae are a sub-family of Sphingidae moths in the order Lepidoptera.

Smerinthinae Taxonomy

References

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