BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
(Macrolepidoptera) (Macro-moths)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superfamily | BOMBYCOIDEA (silk moths, emperor etc.) | 12 | 158 | 24 | 5 | 41 | |
| Superfamily | COSSOIDEA (goat and leopard moths) | 2 | |||||
| Family | COSSIDAE (goat and leopard moths) | 2 | 13 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Superfamily | DREPANOIDEA (lutestrings and hook-tips) | 12 | 96 | 6 | 2 | 13 | |
| Superfamily | GEOMETROIDEA (butterfly moths) | 136 | 1010 | 52 | 10 | 19 | 98 |
| Superfamily | HESPEROIDEA (skippers) | 8 | 35 | 8 | 6 | ||
| Superfamily | NOCTUOIDEA (shuttle moths) | 229 | |||||
| Family | ARCTIIDAE (tiger moths) | 18 | 178 | 24 | 4 | 39 | |
| Family | CTENUCHIDAE (a family of moths) | 1 | |||||
| Family | LYMANTRIIDAE (tussock moths) | 8 | 137 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 42 |
| Family | NOCTUIDAE (shuttle moths) | 181 | 1092 | 139 | 13 | 43 | 256 |
| Family | NOLIDAE (short-cloaked and black arches moths) | 1 | |||||
| Family | NOTODONTIDAE (prominents, puss moth and kittens) | 19 | 202 | 11 | 2 | 18 | |
| Family | THAUMETOPOEIDAE (processionary moths) | 1 | |||||
| Superfamily | PAPILIONOIDEA (butterflies) | 56 | 509 | 50 | 6 | 64 | 75 |
| Family | SESIIDAE (clearwings) | 5 | 17 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Superfamily | SPHINGOIDEA (hawk or sphinx moths) | 14 | 196 | 1 | 9 | 25 | |
| Superfamily | ZYGENOIDEA (burnets and foresters) | 10 | 35 | 10 | 12 |
Suggested Literature
(Macrolepidoptera) may be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
HEXAPODA (hexapods) |
INSECTA (insects) |
LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with (Macrolepidoptera):
Macrolepidoptera may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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ANIMALIA (animals) |
INSECTA (insects) |
LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths) |
