Eulepidoptera

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
Cladi (3): Ditrysia – Etimonotrysia – Incurvariina
Overview of Superfamilies

Adeloidea – Alucitoidea – Andesianoidea – Bombycoidea – Calliduloidea – Carposinoidea – Choreutoidea – Cossoidea – Drepanoidea – Epermenioidea – Galacticoidea – Gelechioidea – Geometroidea – Gracillarioidea – Hyblaeoidea – Immoidea – Lasiocampoidea – Mimallonoidea – Noctuoidea – Palaephatoidea – Papilionoidea – Pterophoroidea – Pyraloidea – Schreckensteinioidea – Simaethistoidea – Thyridoidea – Tineoidea – Tischerioidea – Tortricoidea – Urodoidea – Whalleyanoidea – Yponomeutoidea – Zygaenoidea
Name

Eulepidoptera Kiriakoff, 1948.
References

van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In:
Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page PDF. Reference page.

Eulepidoptera is a division of lepidopterans in the infraorder Heteroneura.

About 98% of described species of Lepidoptera belong to Ditrysia.
See also

Taxonomy of Lepidoptera

References

A classification of the Lepidoptera and related groups with some remarks on taxonomy. SG Kiriakoff, Biologisch Jaarboek, 1948

Van Nieukerken, E.J. et al. 2011: Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011: Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa, 3148: 212–221