| Dioptinae | |
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| Dioptis cyma, the type species of the tribe Dioptini | |
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| Josia ligula, the type species of the tribe Josiini | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Dioptinae Walker, 1862 |
| Genera | |
See text | |
Dioptinae is asubfamily of themothfamilyNotodontidae.
The Dioptinae are an almost exclusively neotropical group of day-flying moths.[1][2]
The subfamily was formerly placed in a separate family (Dioptidae). Furthermore, the tribe Josiini has been treated as a family (Josiidae) by Piepers & Snellen in 1900 and as a subfamily (Josiinae) by Kiriakoff in 1950.
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