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 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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