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(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
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(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)
Ditrysia
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

DITRYSIA (the major suborder of moths)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Superfamily ALUCITOIDEA (many-plume moths) 1 11 6   2
Superfamily BOMBYCOIDEA (silk moths, emperor etc.) 8 169 24   9
Superfamily COSSOIDEA (goat and leopard moths) 1        
Family COSSIDAE (goat and leopard moths) 1 13     1
Superfamily DREPANOIDEA (lutestrings and hook-tips) 11 100 2   4
Superfamily GELECHIOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths) 53 297 132 33 31
Superfamily GEOMETROIDEA (butterfly moths) 132 1020 48 12 44
Superfamily GRACILLARIOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths) 14        
Family BUCCULATRICIDAE (a family of micro-moths) 1   9   3
Family DOUGLASIIDAE (a family of micro-moths)         1
Family GRACILLARIIDAE (a family of micro-moths) 11 10 57 7 8
Family ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE (a family of small ermine moths) 1 7     3
Superfamily HESPEROIDEA (skippers) 6 39     11
Superfamily NOCTUOIDEA (shuttle moths) 188 1664 172 19 103
Superfamily PAPILIONOIDEA (butterflies) 54 565 49 6 79
Superfamily PTEROPHOROIDEA (plume moths) 8 40     4
Superfamily PYRALOIDEA (grass and meal moths) 40 292 15 4 12
Superfamily SESOIDEA (clearwings and related micromoths) 5 29 3   4
Superfamily SPHINGOIDEA (hawk or sphinx moths) 14 204     13
Superfamily TINEOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths) 8 17 59 6 10
Superfamily TORTRICOIDEA (cochylid and tortrix moths) 50 223 114 50 21
Superfamily YPONOMEUTOIDEA (a superfamily of micro-moths) 16        
Family EPERMENIIDAE (a family of micro-moths)         3
Family GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE (a family of micro-moths) 2 19 7   3
Family HELIODINIDAE (a family of micro-moths)         1
Family SCHRECKENSTEINIIDAE (a family of micro-moths)         1
Family YPONOMEUTIDAE (small ermine moths) 11 93 5 6 8
Superfamily ZYGENOIDEA (burnets and foresters) 5 70     12
Informal (Dypterygia scabriuscula / Hyloicus pinastri) (a pair of moths) 2 13 1    
Informal (Nemapogon cloacella / Schiffermuelleria similella) (a pair of micromoths) 3 3   3  

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Emmet, A.M., Langmaid, J. & Heath J., 1985 (Family key) Cossidae to Helionidinidae (vol 2)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 47 general literature references to DITRYSIA (the major suborder of moths)

DITRYSIA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1102 feeding and other relationships of DITRYSIA (the major suborder of moths)

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