COSSOIDEA
(goat and leopard moths)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
COSSIDAE
goat and leopard moths
(Click to open)
 		Family 1 subtaxa 25 images 1 ident. refs
SESIIDAE
clearwings
(Click to open)
 		Family 4 subtaxa 17 images 3 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyCOSSOIDEA (goat and leopard moths)
CladeApoditrysia (butterflies and most moths)
InfraorderDitrysia (butterflies and most moths)
InfraorderHeteroneura (an infraorder of moths and butterflies)
SuborderGLOSSATA (a suborder of moths)
OrderLEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

COSSOIDEA (goat and leopard moths) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for COSSOIDEA (goat and leopard moths)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 34 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for COSSOIDEA (goat and leopard moths)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)