Biology:Macrolepidoptera
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| Grey dagger, Acronicta psi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Clade: | Ditrysia |
| (unranked): | Macrolepidoptera |
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Macrolepidoptera is a group within the insect order Lepidoptera. Traditionally used for the larger butterflies and moths as opposed to the "microlepidoptera", this group is artificial. However, it seems that by moving some taxa about, a monophyletic macrolepidoptera can be easily achieved. The two superfamilies Geometroidea and Noctuoidea account for roughly one-quarter of all known Lepidoptera. [citation needed]
Taxonomy
In the reformed macrolepidoptera, the following superfamilies are included:[1][2]
- Mimallonoidea – sack bearers
- Lasiocampoidea – lappet moths
- Bombycoidea – bombycoid moths
- Noctuoidea – owlet moths
- Drepanoidea – drepanids
- Geometroidea – inchworms
- Axioidea – European gold moths
- Calliduloidea – Old World butterfly-moths
- Hedyloidea – New World butterfly-moths (or moth-butterflies)
- Hesperioidea – skippers
- Papilionoidea – true butterflies
The last two[1] or three[3] superfamilies comprised the Rhopalocera, or butterflies. More recent taxonomic treatments usually include all butterflies in an expanded Papilionoidea.[4][5]
Subsequent molecular studies have failed to recover the macrolepidoptera as a monophyletic group, but have found a well supported clade of moths that excludes the butterflies and some other moth superfamilies. This macro-moth clade, named Macroheterocera, contains the following five or six superfamilies:[4][5]
- Mimallonoidea – sack bearers (sometimes included in basal position)[5]
- Drepanoidea – drepanids
- Noctuoidea – owlet moths
- Geometroidea – inchworms
- Lasiocampoidea – lappet moths
- Bombycoidea – bombycoid moths
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Minet, Joel (1991). "Tentative reconstruction of the ditrysian phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Glossata)". Entomol. Scand. 22: 69–95. doi:10.1163/187631291X00327.
- ↑ Kristensen, Niels P.; Scoble, M. J.; Karsholt, Ole (2007). "Lepidoptera phylogeny and systematics: the state of inventorying moth and butterfly diversity". Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy (Zootaxa:1668). Magnolia Press. pp. 699–747. ISBN 978-0-12-690647-9. http://www.lepidoptera.ee/images/lingid/Zootaxa1668p699.pdf. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
- ↑ Scoble, M.J. (1986). "The structure and affinities of the Hedyloidea: a new concept of the butterflies". Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 53: 251–286. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/78317.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 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. PMID 27860521.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Macrolepidoptera. |
- "Macrolepidoptera". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=117234.
Wikidata ☰ Q580252 entry
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