Grotellinae

Short description: Subfamily of moths

Grotellinae

Grotella binda, Arizona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Noctuidae
Subfamily:  | Grotellinae

Grotellinae is a subfamily of owlet moths in the family Noctuidae. There are about 5 genera and more than 20 described species in Grotellinae. They are found primarily in North and Central America, and are common in the southwestern United States.[1][2]

As a result of phylogenetic research published in 2019, the subfamily Grotellinae was established when Grotellina, a subtribe of Stiriini, was elevated in rank to subfamily.[1]

## Genera

These five genera belong to the subfamily Grotellinae:

* Grotella Harvey, 1875
* Grotellaforma Barnes & Benjamin, 1922
* Hemigrotella Barnes & McDunnough, 1918
* Neogrotella Barnes & Benjamin, 1922
* Podagra Smith, 1902

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Keegan, Kevin L.; Lafontaine, James Donald; Wahlberg, Niklas; Wagner, David L. (2019). "Towards resolving and redefining Amphipyrinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae): a massively polyphyletic taxon". Systematic Entomology 44 (2): 451–464. doi:10.1111/syen.12336. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/syen.12336.
2. ↑ Keegan, Kevin; Rota, Jadranka; Zahiri, Reza; Zilli, Alberto et al. (2021). "Toward a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy". Insect Systematics and Diversity 5 (3). doi:10.1093/isd/ixab005. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351287266.

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