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Metoponiinae

Topic: Biology

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Short description: Subfamily of insects

Metoponiinae
Cydosia aurivitta, Texas
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Metoponiinae
Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
Panemeria tenebrata, Belgium
Azenia obtusa, Oklahoma

Metoponiinae is a subfamily of owlet moths in the family Noctuidae. There are about 16 genera and more than 70 described species in Metoponiinae.[1][2][3][4]

Genera

These 16 genera belong to the subfamily Metoponiinae:

References

  1. ↑ "Metoponiinae Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=936937. 
  2. ↑ "Metoponiinae subfamily Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/1045735. 
  3. ↑ Wagner, David L.; Keegan, Kevin; Bugh, Valerie G. (2019). "A Tale of Two Caterpillars and Reclassification of Cerathosia Smith and Cydosia Duncan [& Westwood (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)"]. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 73 (1). doi:10.18473/lepi.73i1.a1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332580930. 
  4. ↑ Keegan, Kevin; Rota, Jadranka; Zahiri, Reza; Zilli, Alberto et al. (2021). "Toward a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy". Insect Systematics and Diversity 5. doi:10.1093/isd/ixab005. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351287266. 

Further reading

  • Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414. 

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