Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species.
Diversity The family consists of four subfamilies and the unplaced Ganissa group. The subfamily Eupterotinae consists of about 11 genera, the Ganissa group about 10 genera, the subfamily Janinae about 16 genera, the subfamily Panacelinae consists of one genus and 3 species and the subfamily Striphnopteryginae of 15 genera.
Genera Subfamily Eupterotinae Tribe Cotanini Forbes, 1955 Cotana Melanergon Tribe Eupterotini Apha Apona Dreata Eupterote Ganisa Lasiomorpha Marmaroplegma Melanothrix Neopreptos Nisaga Palirisa Pandala Parajana Phyllalia Poloma Preptos Preptothauma Pseudoganisa Pseudojana Tagora
Subfamily Hibrildinae Berger, 1958 Hibrildes Subfamily Janinae Aurivillius, 1892 Acrojana Camerunia Catajana Drepanojana Ebbepterote Naumann, Giusti & Nässig, 2024 Epijana Gonojana Gracilanja Hemijana Hoplojana Jana Malagasanja Pterocerota Rhodopteriana Stenoglene Striginiana Tantaliana (in some schemes divergent) Tissanga Urojana Vianga (=Viana) Subfamily Panacelinae Forbes, 1955 Panacela Subfamily Striphnopteryginae Wallengren, 1858 Bantuana Cyrtojana Euchera Janomima ichenopteryx Papuapterote Paraphyllalia Phiala Schistissa Striphnopteryx Teratojana Trichophiala
Unassigned Calapterote Paramarane Rarisquamosa
Former genera Euchera Gastridiota Hypercydas Leptojana Messata Murlida Nervicompressa Pachyjana Paracydas Pugniphalera (=Neodrymonia Matsumura, 1920) Sangatissa Sarmalia Sarvena Spalyria Sesquiluna Sphingognatha Thermojana Yang, 1995 (=Gangaridopsis Grunberg, 1912)
References
, 2012: Description de nouveaux Eupterotidae africains (Lepidoptera). Entomologia Africana 17 (2): 2–14. , 1955: The subdivision of the Eupterotidae (Lepidoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 98 (2): 85–132. , 2008: An annotated catalogue of the genera of Eupterotidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea). Senckenbergiana Biologica 88 (1): 53–80. , 2007: A second species with diurnal males of the genus Eupterote from Indonesia: Eupterote (Eupterote) splendens sp. n. from Sulawesi (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea, Eupterotidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 87 (2): 189–194. . Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names and their Type-species. Natural History Museum. ; ; 2003: Ebbepterote, a new genus for the Australian 'Eupterote' expansa (T. P. Lucas), with a revised classification of the family Eupterotidae (Lepidoptera). Invertebrate systematics, 17: 99–110.
External links
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database