Hedylidae

Hedylidae
Macrosoma bahiata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Clade: Obtectomera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Hedylidae
Guenée, 1857, nec. Bergh, 1895
Genus: Macrosoma
Hübner, 1818
Type species
Macrosoma tipulata
Hübner, 1818
Species

see List of species

Diversity
35 currently recognised species
Synonyms
  • Epirrita Hübner, 1808 [unavailable name]
  • Hedyle Guenée, 1857, type species Hedyle heliconiaria Guenée, 1857
  • Phellinodes Guenée, 1857, type species Phellinodes satellitiata Guenée, 1857
  • Venodes Guenée, 1857, type species Phellinodes satellitiata Guenée, 1857
  • Macrophila Walker, 1862, type species Macrosoma tipulata Hübner, 1818
  • Hyphedyle Warren, 1894, type species Hedyle rubedinaria Walker, 1862
  • Lasiopates Warren, 1905, type species Lasiopates hyacinthina Warren, 1905

Hedylidae, the "American moth-butterflies", is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera, formerly representing the superfamily Hedyloidea. They have traditionally been viewed as an extant sister group of the butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea, but a 2014 phylogenetic analysis has suggested Hedylidae is a subgroup of Papilionoidea, and not a sister group, and are more accurately referred to as butterflies rather than moths. They are represented by a single Neotropical genus, Macrosoma, with 35 currently recognized species.

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