Dioptinae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia:Notodontidae
Subfamilia: Dioptinae
Tribus (2): Dioptini - Josiini
Name

Dioptinae Walker, 1862

Type genus: Dioptis Hübner, 1818
Synonyms

Dioptidae Walker, 1862
Dioptinae Kiriakoff, 1950
Josiidae Piepers & Snellen, 1900: 26. Type-genus Josia Hübner, 1819. Placed as a tribus in Dioptinae by Miller & Otero, 1994: 339.

References

Lafontaine, J.D. & Schmidt, B.C. 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Zookeys 40: 1–239. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.40.414 Reference page.
Miller, J.S. 2009: Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 321: 1–674. Full article: [1]
Miller, J.S. 2009: Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 2: Josiini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 321: 675–1022. Full article: [2]
Miller, J.S. & P. Thiaucourt, 2011: Diversity of Prominent Moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) in the Cloud Forests of Northeastern Ecuador, with Descriptions of 27 New Species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 104 (6): 1033–1077. Abstract: DOI: 10.1603/AN10141
Miller, J.S.; Brower, A.V.Z.; DeSalle, R. 1997: Phylogeny of the Neotropical moth tribe Josiini (Notodontidae: Dioptinae): comparing and combining evidence from DNA sequences and morphology. Biological journal of the Linnean Society, 60: 297–316.
Rawlins, J.E.; Miller, J.S. 2008: Dioptine moths of the Caribbean region: description of two new genera with notes on biology and biogeography (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae: Dioptinae). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 76: 203–225.
Schintlmeister, A. 2013. World Catalogue of Insects: Notodontidae & Oenosandridae (Lepidoptera). Volume 11: 1–608. Reference page.

Dioptinae is a subfamily of the moth family Notodontidae.

The Dioptinae are an almost exclusively neotropical group of day-flying moths, many of which exhibit bright wing coloration and are involved in mimicry rings with butterflies (especially Ithomiini) and moths of the subfamilies Sterrhinae and Arctiinae.
Taxonomy

The subfamily was formerly placed in a separate family (Dioptidae). Furthermore, the tribe Josiini has been treated as a family (Josiidae) by Piepers & Snellen in 1900 and as a subfamily (Josiinae) by Kiriakoff in 1950.
Genera

Tribe Josiini Miller & Otero, 1994
Caribojosia
Ephialtias
Getta
Josia
Lyces
Notascea
Phavaraea
Phintia
Polyptychia
Proutiella
Scea
Tribe Dioptini Minet, 1983
Anticoreura
Argentala
Brachyglene
Cacolyces
Chrysoglossa
Cleptophasia
Dioptis
Dolophrosyne
Erbessa
Eremonidia
Eremonidiopsis
Euchontha
Hadesina
Isostyla
Momonipta
Monocreagra
Nebulosa
Oricia
Pareuchontha
Phaeochlaena
Phanoptis
Phryganidia
Pikroprion
Polypoetes
Pseudoricia
Sagittala
Scotura
Scoturopsis
Stenoplastis
Tithraustes
Xenomigia
Xenorma
Xenormicola
Unplaced
‘‘Thirmida’’ venusta