Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Noctuoidea Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Family Erebidae Rank Tribe | |
Subfamily Toxocampinae
Guenée, 1852 Similar Lygephila, Butterflies and moths, Autophila | ||
The Toxocampinae are a subfamily of moths in the Erebidae family. Moths in the subfamily typically have a primitive form of genital claspers similar to those of some subfamilies of the Noctuidae.
Contents
Taxonomy
Morphological analysis previously classified the subfamily as the tribe Toxocampini of the former Catocalinae subfamily within Erebidae. Phylogenetic analysis supports the subfamily as a clade within Erebidae but outside the Catocalinae (now called the Erebinae).
Genera
References
Toxocampinae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA