Callimorphina

The Callimorphina are a subtribe of woolly bear moths in the family Erebidae. The subtribe was described by Francis Walker in 1865. Many of these moths are easily confused with butterflies, being quite brightly colored and somewhat diurnal. Their antennae are not thickened into "clubs", which is a typical characteristic of butterflies.

Callimorphina
Utetheisa pulchelloides imago
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Callimorphina
Walker, [1865]
Synonyms
  • Callimorphina
Haploa sp. caterpillar on bluebells

Taxonomy

The subtribe was previously classified as a tribe of the former family Arctiidae.

Genera

This list of genera in the subtribe were outlined by Michelle A. DaCosta and Susan J. Weller[1] and by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov.[2]

References
  1. DaCosta MA, Weller SJ (2005) Phylogeny and classification of Callimorphini (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Zootaxa 1025:1-94
  2. Dubatolov VV (2006): Cladogenesis of tiger-moths of the subfamily Arctiinae: development of a cladogenetic model of the tribe Callimorphini (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) by the SYNAP method. Euroasian Entomological Journal 5(2):95-104 (in Russian)


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