Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Subfamily | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | |
Similar Hypeninae, Butterflies and moths, Pantheinae, Acontiinae, Euteliidae | ||
The Rivulinae are a subfamily of moths in the Erebidae family. Caterpillars in the subfamily typically have long, barbed hairs and have full prolegs on abdominal segments 3 through 6. The adults have a unique microsculturing proboscis.
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Taxonomy
This subfamily was previously classified as part of the Hypeninae subfamily of Erebidae or within Noctuidae. Recent phylogenetic studies did not discover a close relationship with the Hypeninae but keep it within in the Erebidae.
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