Diphthera (moth)

Diphthera
Diphthera festiva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Nolidae
Subfamily: Diphtherinae
Fibiger & Lafontaine, 2005
Genus: Diphthera
Hübner, [1809]
Synonyms
  • Euglyphia Hübner, [1820]
  • Diphtera Stephens, 1850 (Missp.)
  • Noropsis Guenée, 1852

Diphtherinae is a monotypic subfamily of moths in the family Nolidae erected by Michael Fibiger and J. Donald Lafontaine in 2005. Its only genus, Diphthera, was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1809. The genus was moved from Noctuidae in 2013 after the phylogenetic analysis of Reza Zahiri et al. (2013).

Species

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku (August 23, 2019). "Diphtherinae Fibiger & Lafontaine, 2005". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ Lafontaine, J. D. & Schmidt, B. C. (2013). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4443. PMC 3668382.
  3. ↑ Savela, Markku (July 25, 2019). "Diphthera Hübner, [1809]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Diphthera​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Diphthera Hübner, 1809". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  6. ↑ Zahiri, R.; Lafontaine, J. D.; Holloway, J. D.; Kitching, I. J.; Schmidt, B. C.; Kaila, L. & Wahlberg, N. (2013). "Major lineages of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) elucidated by molecular phylogenetics". Cladistics. doi:10.1111/cla.12001.