Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Noctuoidea Higher classification Notodontidae Order Butterflies and moths | Subphylum Hexapoda Phylum Arthropoda Rank Subfamily | |
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Similar Butterflies and moths, Notodontidae, Insect, Noctuoidea, Josia | ||
Dioptinae is a subfamily of the moth family Notodontidae.
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The Dioptinae are an almost exclusively neotropical group of day-flying moths, many of which exhibit bright wing coloration and are involved in mimicry rings with butterflies (especially Ithomiini) and moths of the Sterrhinae subfamily and Arctiidae family.
Taxonomy
The subfamily was formerly placed in a separate family (Dioptidae). Furthermore, the tribe Josiini has been treated as a family (Josiidae) by Piepers & Snellen in 1900 and as a subfamily (Josiinae) by Kiriakoff in 1950.
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References
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