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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)
DITRYSIA
(the major suborder of moths)
NOCTUOIDEA
(shuttle moths)
NOTODONTIDAE
(prominents, puss moth and kittens)
Notodontidae
is also a member of:
Macrolepidoptera
(via Noctuoidea)
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

NOTODONTIDAE (prominents, puss moth and kittens)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs
Species Cerura vinula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Puss Moth)   27 3  
Genus Clostera (chocolate-tip moths) 1 8    
Species Diloba caeruleocephala (Linnaeus, 1758) (Figure Of Eight)       1
Species Drymonia dodonaea (Denis and Schiff., 1775) (Marbled Brown)   10    
Species Drymonia ruficornis (Hufnagel, 1767) (Lunar Marbled Brown)   5    
Genus Furcula (kittens) 1 3    
Species Leucodonta bicoloria (Denis & Schiff., 1775) (White Prominent)       1
Genus Notodonta (a genus of prominents) 2 29    
Species Odontosia carmelita (Esper, 1799) (Scarce Prominent)   5    
Species Peridea anceps (Goeze, 1781) (Great Prominent)   14    
Species Phalera bucephala (Linnaeus, 1758) (Buff-tip Moth)   14 3  
Species Pheosia gnoma (Fabricius, 1777) (Lesser Swallow Prominent)   1    
Species Pheosia tremula (Clerck, 1759) (Swallow Prominent Moth)   9    
Species Pterostoma palpina (Clerck, 1759) (Pale Prominent Moth)   18    
Species Ptilodon capucina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coxcomb Prominent Moth)   70    
Species Stauropus fagi (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lobster Moth) 1 17    

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Emmet, A.M., Langmaid, J. & Heath J., 1979 Sphingidae to Noctuidae (Noctuinae & Hadeninae) (vol 9)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 general literature references to NOTODONTIDAE (prominents, puss moth and kittens)

NOTODONTIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)		 DITRYSIA
(the major suborder of moths)
Macrolepidoptera (via Noctuoidea)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 25 feeding and other relationships of NOTODONTIDAE (prominents, puss moth and kittens)

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