Zygaenoidea
Appearance
Zygaenoidea | |
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Six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Clade: | Apoditrysia |
Superfamily: | Zygaenoidea |
Families | |
See text | |
Diversity | |
Over 2,600 species |
The Zygaenoidea comprise the superfamily of moths that includes burnet moths, forester moths, and relatives.
The families are:
- Aididae
- Anomoeotidae
- Cyclotornidae
- Dalceridae
- Epipyropidae
- Heterogynidae
- Himantopteridae
- Lacturidae
- Limacodidae
- Megalopygidae
- Phaudidae
- Somabrachyidae
- Zygaenidae
References
[edit]- Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002
- Tree of Life: Zygaenoidea
Data related to Zygaenoidea at Wikispecies