Cocytiini

Cocytiini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Erebinae
Tribe: Cocytiini
Boisduval, [1828]

The Cocytiini are a tribe of moths in the Erebidae family. Adults of some members of the subfamily, especially in the Serrodes genus, have a proboscis capable of piercing fruit skins, allowing the moth to drink the fruit juice.[1]

Taxonomy

The tribe may be most closely related to the clade containing the Poaphilini and Ophiusini tribes, also within the Erebinae.[1]

Genera

References

  1. 1 2 Zahiri, Reza; et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.


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