Hedylidae | |
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Macrosoma bahiata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Clade: | Obtectomera |
Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
Family: | Hedylidae Guenée, 1857, nec. Bergh, 1895 |
Genus: | Macrosoma Hübner, 1818 |
Type species | |
Macrosoma tipulata Hübner, 1818
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Species | |
see List of species | |
Diversity | |
35 currently recognised species | |
Synonyms | |
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Hedylidae, the "American moth-butterflies", is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera, representing the superfamily Hedyloidea. They have traditionally been viewed as an extant sister group of the butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea, but a 2014 phylogenetic analysis has suggested Hedylidae is a subgroup of Papilionoidea, and not a sister group, and are more accurately referred to as butterflies rather than moths.[1] They are represented by a single Neotropical genus Macrosoma with 35 currently recognized species.
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