Taxonavigation

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamiliae (18): Aganainae – Anobinae – Arctiinae – Boletobiinae – Calpinae – Erebinae – Eulepidotinae – Herminiinae – Hypeninae – Hypenodinae – Hypocalinae – Lymantriinae – Pangraptinae – Rivulinae – Scolecocampinae – Scoliopteryginae – Tinoliinae – Toxocampinae

Name

Erebidae Leach, [1815] 1830

Type genus: Erebus Latreille, 1810

Stem: Ereb-

References

• Barbut, J. & Lalanne-Cassou, B. 2010. Contribution to the knowledge of Erebidae from French Guiana: description of five new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 115(4): 435–444.
• Kravchenko, Fibiger, Hausmann & Mueller. 2007. The Lepidoptera of Israel, volume 1: Erebidae
• Lafontaine, J.D. & Fibiger, M. 2006. Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). Canadian entomologist 138: 610–635. Abstract
• Lafontaine, J.D. & Schmidt, B.C. 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 40: 1–239. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.40.414

• Pinheiro, L. 2016. Description of three new species of Galethalea Butler, 1876 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), with comments on the genus: In: Pinto et al., Living among dragons: A festschrift in honor to Dr. Angelo B. M. Machado on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa 4078(1): 354–365. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.30 . Full article (PDF)Reference page. 
• Pogue, M.G. 2012. The Aventiinae, Boletobiinae, Eublemminae, Pangraptinae, Phytometrinae, and Scolecocampinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A. Zootaxa 3153: 1–31. Preview (PDF)
• Poole, R.W. 1989. Lepidopterorum Catalogus New Series Noctuidae Part 1. Fascicle 118: 3–500.

• Schmidt, B.C. & Lafontaine, J.D. 2015. Contributions to the systematics of New World macro-moths VI. Zookeys 527: 1–2. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.527.6803 Full article Reference page. 

• Volynkin, A.V., Dubatolov, V.V. & Kishida, Y. 2017. Barsura Volynkin, Dubatolov & Kishida, gen. nov., with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zootaxa 4299(1): 54–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.1.2 . Reference page. 
• Witt, T.J. & Ronkay, L. 2011 Lymantriinae and Arctiinae – Including Phylogeny and Check List of the Quadrifid Noctuoidea of Europe. Noctuidae Europaeae Volume 13: 1–448.

• Zahiri, R. et al. 2011 (online) 2012 (print). Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Systematic Entomology 37(1): 102–124. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x Reference page. 

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