Lymantriini

Lymantriini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Lymantriinae
Tribe: Lymantriini
Hampson, 1893

Lymantriini (sometimes misspelled as Lymantrini) is a tribe of moths of the Erebidae family. This tribe is a group of polyphagous moths that reside mostly in the tropical regions of Afro-Eurasia but also North America.

Description

Within the family, Lymantriini is distinguished from other tribes by dark, usually zig-zag (sometimes crescent-shaped) banding on the forewings, V-shaped marks on the wing as well as a discal spot and an orbicular spot. It is also characterized by the lack of an areole.

Lymantriini generally are not particularly native to any one area, being found in both the Nearctic and Palearctic zones.

Taxonomy

The tribe was originally described by entomologist Douglas C. Ferguson as one of two tribes (the other Orgyiini). A 2006 paper by J.D. Holloway distinguished three new tribes from Lymantriini Nygmiini, Leucomini and Arctornithini. In doing this, Holloway acknowledges that Lymantriini is "possibly the most weakly defined of those presented here ... [it] lacks all the strongly definitive features of the other tribes." The genus Lymantria (Hübner) is the most prominent member of the tribe.

Genera

The tribe includes the following genera. This list may be incomplete.

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