Anobinae

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Anobinae
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Anobinae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Anobinae
Holloway, 2005

The Anobinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 2005. [1] [2] Common morphological characteristics of Anobine moths include a dark head and prothoracic collar, lighter color on the thorax, and either bipectinate antennae or antennae with flagellomeral setae in males. [3]

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References

  1. Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 March 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. 40: 26. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.40.414 .
  2. Zahiri, Reza; et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 37: 102–124. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.
  3. Lafontaine, J. Donald; Walsh, J. Bruce (18 March 2010). "A review of the subfamily Anobinae with the description of a new species of Baniana Walker from North and Central America (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Anobinae)". ZooKeys. 39: 3–11. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.39.428 .