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- ↑ Lapaeumides at funet
- ↑ Lamas, G. (1995). A critical review of JY Miller’s checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera). Revista peruana de Entomología, 37, 73-87.
- ↑ de Moraes, S. S., & Duarte, M. (2014). Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170(2), 362-399.
- ↑ González, J. M., Boone, J. H., Brilmyer, G. M., & Le, D. (2010). The giant butterfly-moths of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, with notes on the Herman Strecker collection (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 38(152), 385-409.