Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae Higher classification Erebinae Lower classifications Zale, Helia | Phylum Arthropoda Superfamily Noctuoidea Subfamily Erebinae Rank Tribe | |
Zale fictilis moth mariposa erebidae erebinae omopterini
The Omopterini are a tribe of moths in the Erebidae family.
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Taxonomy
The tribe was split from the Ophiusini tribe (also in the Erebinae subfamily) after phylogenetic analysis showed that the New World genera were not the closest relatives of the other genera in the Ophiusini.
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Omopterini Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA