BioImages (UK)
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)
NOCTUIDAE
(shuttle moths)
OPHIDERINAE
(a subfamily of shuttle moths)
Ophiderinae
is also a member of:
Macrolepidoptera
(via Noctuoidea)
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

OPHIDERINAE (a subfamily of shuttle moths)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #refs
Species Parascotia fuliginaria (Linnaeus, 1761) (Waved Black) 13 1
Species Rivula sericealis (Scopoli, 1763) (Straw Dot) 5  
Species Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnaeus, 1758) (Herald) 7  
Species Tyta luctuosa (Denis & Schiff., 1775) (Four-spotted)   3

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Emmet, A.M., Langmaid, J. & Heath J., 1983 Noctuidae (Cucullinae to Hypeninae) and Agaristidae (vol 10)

OPHIDERINAE 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)		 NOCTUIDAE
(shuttle moths)
Macrolepidoptera (via Noctuoidea)
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