Biology:Macroheterocera
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The Macroheterocera are a well supported clade[1] of moths that are closely related to butterflies and macro-moths.[2][3]
Taxonomy
The Macroheterocera includes the following superfamilies:[2][3]
- Mimallonoidea – sack bearers (variously included in basal position[3] or excluded[2])
- Drepanoidea – drepanids
- Noctuoidea – owlet moths
- Geometroidea – inchworms
- Lasiocampoidea – lappet moths
- Bombycoidea – bombycoid moths
The macroheteroceran superfamilies were previously place in the Macrolepidoptera, but recent molecular studies have failed to recover the Macrolepidoptera as a monophyletic group.[2][3] The latter grouping also included butterflies (Papilionoidea) and Old World butterfly-moths (Calliduloidea).
References
- ↑ Kawahara, Akito Y.; Plotkin, David; Espeland, Marianne; Meusemann, Karen; Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A.; Donath, Alexander; Gimnich, France; Frandsen, Paul B. et al. (2019-11-05). "Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (45): 22657–22663. doi:10.1073/pnas.1907847116. PMID 31636187. PMC 6842621. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1907847116.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Lauri Kaila; Ian J. Kitching; Niels P. Kristensen; David C. Lees; Joël Minet; Charles Mitter; Marko Mutanen et al. (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang. ed. "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758". Zootaxa. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness 3148: 212–221. https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald R.; Cummings, Michael P. (2017). "Phylogeny and Evolution of Lepidoptera". Annual Review of Entomology 62 (1): 265–283. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-031616-035125. ISSN 0066-4170.
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