Colobochyla

Colobochyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Hypeninae
Genus: Colobochyla
Hübner, [1825]

Colobochyla is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family.

Taxonomy

The genus has previously been classified in the Phytometrinae subfamily of Erebidae or the Calpinae subfamily of the Noctuidae family.[1] The genus is tentatively classified in the Hypeninae but needs further phylogenetic analysis to determine its proper subfamily placement.[2]

Species

References

  1. "Phytometrinae". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  2. Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2013). "Comments on differences in classification of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) between Eurasia and North America". ZooKeys 264: 209–217. doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4441.
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