Bombycina

Bombycina
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Clade: Ditrysia
Section: Cossina
Subsection: Bombycina

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.

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