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Family Drepanidae - Hooktip & False Owlet Moths

Caterpillar - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

Orange caterpillar - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

Tufted Thyatirin - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

caterpillar in rolled up raspberry leaves - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

Brown with white spots - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

No Taxon (Moths)

Superfamily Drepanoidea

Family Drepanidae (Hooktip & False Owlet Moths)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Includes the former family Thyatiridae as a subfamily (Thyatirinae). Web sites that have incorporated this change include All-Leps, Butterflies & Moths of the World, CBIF, North Dakota State U., Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa, FUNET, Wikipedia Encyclopedia, and Jeremy Tatum, who laments the change here. BugGuide currently follows the moth classification and nomenclature used at All-Leps. - [RM, 15 May 2005]

Numbers

A small family, Nearctica.com lists three genera and five species for North America. These are: Drepana--2 spp., Eudeilinia 2 spp., and Oreta--1 sp. - [PC, 17 May 2004]

21 species in 9 genera in two subfamilies in North America listed at All-Leps (includes 5 species in 3 genera in subfamily Drepaninae, and 16 species in 6 genera in subfamily Thyatirinae) - [RM, 4 Sep 2006]

Range

throughout North America except Yukon and Alaska

Remarks

Family DREPANIDAE

Subfamily Drepaninae (Hooktip Moths)

3 genera in North America: Drepana, Eudeilinia, Oreta

Subfamily Thyatirinae (False Owlet Moths)

Tribe Ceranemotini

2 genera in North America: Bycombia, Ceranemota

Tribe Habrosynini

2 genera in North America: Habrosyne, Pseudothyatira

Tribe Macrothyatirini

1 genus in North America: Euthyatira

Tribe Thyatirini

1 genus in North America: Thyatira

Internet References

NCSU Entomology collection lists these species as having specimens from North Carolina, with # pinned: Drepana arcuata (36), Eudeilinia herminiata (11), and Oreta rosea (35). Drepana bilineata is listed in the collection, just not with a North Carolina specimen.

Drepanoidea of Canada shows pinned adult images of 12 species. Among the Drepaninae, Eudeilinia herminiata does not have hook-tipped wings.

pinned adult images of 11 species by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)

pinned adult images of 15 species by various photographers (Moth Photographers Group)

Contributed by Cotinis on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Robin McLeod
Last updated 18 April, 2009 - 5:33pm

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