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Eupterotidae

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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Synonyms
  • Striphnopterygidae Wallengren, 1858
  • Phialidae Wallengren, 1865
  • Janidae Aurivillius, 1892
  • Hibrildidae Berger, 1958
  • Cotaninae Forbes, 1955
  • Tissangini Forbes, 1955

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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.


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