Eupterotidae | |
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Panacela lewinae | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Bombycoidea |
Family: |
Eupterotidae Swinhoe, 1892 |
Genera | |
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Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order with more than 300 described species.
The family consists of four subfamilies and the unplaced Ganissa group. The subfamily Eupterotinae consists of about 11 genera, the Ganissa group about 10 genera, the subfamily Janinae about 16 genera, the subfamily Panacelinae consists of one genus and 3 species and the subfamily Striphnopteryginae of 15 genera.