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Chrysopolominae
Subfamily of moths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chrysopolominae is a subfamily of moths in the family Limacodidae.[1][2] The type genus of this subfamily is Chrysopoloma. Chrysopolominae was originally a family (Chrysopolomidae) under the superfamily Zygaenoidea, consisting of two subfamilies, including about 30 species distributed in Africa, but in other newer documents, this family was downgraded and became It is a subfamily under Limacodidae, which belongs to the superfamily of Zygaenoidea, and the two subfamilies originally under Chrysopolominae were merged to become the synonym of Chrysopolominae called Ectropinae.
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Chrysopolominae | |
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Chrysopoloma isabellina | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Limacodidae |
Subfamily: | Chrysopolominae (Aurivillius, 1895) |
Type genus | |
Chrysopoloma Aurivillius, 1895 | |
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