Nolidae

Nolidae is a family of moths with about 1,700 described species worldwide.[1] They are mostly small with dull coloration, the main distinguishing feature being a silk cocoon with a vertical exit slit. The group is sometimes known as tuft moths, after the tufts of raised scales on the forewings of two subfamilies, Nolinae and Collomeninae.[2] The larvae also tend to have muted colors and tufts of short hairs.

Nolidae
Green silver-lines, Pseudoips prasinana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Nolidae
Bruand, 1847[1]

Formerly, this group was included in the Noctuidae.

Subfamilies

Monotypic subfamilies

Genera incertae sedis

The following genera have yet to be assigned to a subfamily:

References
  1. ERIK J. VAN NIEUKERKEN; LAURI KAILA; IAN J. KITCHING; NIELS P. KRISTENSEN; DAVID C. LEES; JOËL MINET; CHARLES MITTER; MARKO MUTANEN; JEROME C. REGIER; THOMAS J. SIMONSEN; NIKLAS WAHLBERG; SHEN-HORN YEN; REZA ZAHIRI; DAVID ADAMSKI; JOAQUIN BAIXERAS; DANIEL BARTSCH; BENGT Å. BENGTSSON; JOHN W. BROWN; SIBYL RAE BUCHELI; DONALD R. DAVIS; JURATE DE PRINS; WILLY DE PRINS; MARC E. EPSTEIN; PATRICIA GENTILI-POOLE; CEES GIELIS; PETER HÄTTENSCHWILER; AXEL HAUSMANN; JEREMY D. HOLLOWAY; AXEL KALLIES; OLE KARSHOLT; AKITO Y. KAWAHARA; SJAAK J. C. KOSTER; MIKHAIL V. KOZLOV; J. DONALD LAFONTAINE; GERARDO LAMAS; JEAN-FRANÇOIS LANDRY; SANGMI LEE; MATTHIAS NUSS; KYU-TEK PARK; CARLA PENZ; JADRANKA ROTA; ALEXANDER SCHINTLMEISTER; B. CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT; JAE-CHEON SOHN; M. ALMA SOLIS; GERHARD M. TARMANN; ANDREW D. WARREN; SUSAN WELLER; ROMAN V. YAKOVLEV; VADIM V. ZOLOTUHIN; ANDREAS ZWICK. "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758". Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. 3148 (1): 212-221. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.41. In Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
  2. Zahiri, R.; Lafontaine, J. D.; Holloway, J. D.; Kitching, I. J.; Schmidt, B. C.; Kaila, L. & Wahlberg, N. (2013). "Major lineages of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) elucidated by molecular phylogenetics". Cladistics. 29 (4): 337–359. doi:10.1111/cla.12001. S2CID 56207549.
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