Bombycina
| Bombycina | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Clade: | Ditrysia | 
| Section: | Cossina | 
| Subsection: | |
Bombycina is the name for a subsection of Ditrysian insects in order containing both butterflies and moths having a dorsal heart vessel. Subsection Bombycina contains generally larger sized moths and butterflies in the superfamilies Bombycoidea, Calliduloidea, Drepanoidea, Geometroidea, Lasiocampoidea, Mimallonoidea, Noctuoidea, and Papilionoidea, having spineless pupae.[1]
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Wikispecies has information related to Bombycina.
- ^ Capinera, John, editor (2008), Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd ed., Springer Verlag, New York, page 664