Overview
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Somabrachyidae is a family of moth in the order Lepidoptera.
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- ^ Genera of Somabrachyidae in Butterflies and Moths of the World Catalogue (Natural History Museum) Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ^ Geertsema, H. (2000). Studies on African zygaenoid moths (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea): Parapsycharium n. gen. (Somabrachyidae) from the Western Cape province, South Africa. African Zoology 35 (2): 251?259.
Taxonomy
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The Family Somabrachyidae is a member of the Superfamily Zygaenoidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Somabrachyidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Butterflies and Moths
- Suborder: Glossata
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Superfamily: Zygaenoidea
- Family: Somabrachyidae
- Superfamily: Zygaenoidea
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Suborder: Glossata
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Butterflies and Moths
- Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Somabrachyidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (2): Psycharium · Somabrachys
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 34 species and subspecies in the Family Somabrachyidae.
Genera
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Psycharium
Somabrachys
At least 31 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Somabrachys.
More info about the Genus Somabrachys may be found here.
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