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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Swallowtail Moths (Uraniidae)

Family Uraniidae - Swallowtail Moths

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Internet References
Gray Scoopwing - Callizzia amorata Help confirm, a Trotorhombia metachromata ? - Trotorhombia metachromata Gray Scoopwing - Hodges#7650 - Callizzia amorata 7652 - Antiplecta triangularis Brown Gray Scoopwing? - Callizzia amorata 7653 – Calledapteryx dryopterata – Brown Scoopwing - Calledapteryx dryopterata Callizzia amorata? - Callizzia amorata 910002 Callizzia amorata 7650 - Callizzia amorata
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Geometroidea (Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths)
Family Uraniidae (Swallowtail Moths)
Other Common Names
Sunset Moths
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
includes the former family Epiplemidae, now treated as a subfamily (Epipleminae) of Uraniidae
BugGuide currently follows the moth classification and nomenclature used at All-Leps.
Numbers
9 species in 8 genera in 2 subfamilies in North America listed at All-Leps; the other subfamily (Uraniinae) is represented in North America by a single species, Urania fulgens, which occurs in Central America, and strays north to southern Texas
Range
A mostly tropical family of large and colorful moths; only 9 species reach United States, and only 2 species reach Canada.
Internet References
common names reference [Swallowtail Moths, Sunset Moths] (The Geometroidea of Canada; CBIF)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 5 April, 2005 - 7:51pm
Last updated 7 March, 2007 - 6:44am

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