PYGAERINAE
(chocolate-tips and dusky marbled-brown)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Clostera chocolate-tip moths					Genus	2 subtaxa	13 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Subfamily	PYGAERINAE (chocolate-tips and dusky marbled-brown)
Family	NOTODONTIDAE (prominents, processionaries, puss moth and kittens)
Superfamily	NOCTUOIDEA (shuttle moths)
Clade	Macrolepidoptera (macro-moths)
Clade	Obtectomera (butterflies and most moths)
Clade	Apoditrysia (butterflies and most moths)
Infraorder	Ditrysia (butterflies and most moths)
Infraorder	Heteroneura (an infraorder of moths and butterflies)
Suborder	GLOSSATA (a suborder of moths)
Order	LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

PYGAERINAE is also a member of:
Microlepidoptera - micro-moths (via Apoditrysia)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

PYGAERINAE (chocolate-tips and dusky marbled-brown) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NOTODONTIDAE
(prominents, processionaries, puss moth and kittens)

Macrolepidoptera
(macro-moths)

Ditrysia
(butterflies and most moths)

LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Microlepidoptera
(micro-moths)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PYGAERINAE (chocolate-tips and dusky marbled-brown)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PYGAERINAE (chocolate-tips and dusky marbled-brown)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

PYGAERINAE is also a member of:

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