Drepanoidea

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Drepanoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
(unranked) Ditrysia
Superfamily: Drepanoidea
Diversity
about 675 species
Families

Drepanidae
Cyclidiidae
Thyatiridae
Epicopeiidae

Drepanoidea is the superfamily of "hook tip moths". There are about 129 genera, distributed worldwide. See Minet and Scoble (1999) for a comprehensive overview.

  • Minet, J and Scoble, M.J. (1999). The Drepanoid/Geometroid Assemblage. Ch. 17 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.

  • Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002
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Arthropoda - Insecta - Superfamilies of Lepidoptera Nemophora degeerella
 

Butterflies: - Hedyloidea - Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea Moths: - Acanthopteroctetoidea - Agathiphagoidea - Alucitoidea - Andesianoidea - Axioidea - Bombycoidea - Calliduloidea - Choreutoidea - Copromorphoidea - Cossoidea - Drepanoidea - Epermenioidea - Eriocranioidea - Galacticoidea - Gelechioidea - Geometroidea - Gracillarioidea - Hepialoidea - Heterobathmioidea - Hyblaeoidea - Immoidea - Incurvarioidea - Lasiocampoidea - Lophocoronoidea - Micropterigoidea - Mimallonoidea - Mnesarchaeoidea - Neopseustoidea - Nepticuloidea - Noctuoidea - Palaephatoidea - Pterophoroidea - Pyraloidea - Schreckensteinioidea - Sesioidea - Simaethistoidea - Thyridoidea - Tineoidea - Tischerioidea - Tortricoidea - Urodoidea - Whalleyanoidea - Yponomeutoidea - Zygaenoidea
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