Ditrysia

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Ditrysia

Kamehameha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Suborder: Glossata

Infraorder: Heteroneura

Division: Ditrysia
Borner, 1925
Principal clades and Superfamilies

Simaethistoidea
Tineoidea
Gracillarioidea
Yponomeutoidea
Gelechioidea
Apoditrysia
- Galacticoidea
- Zygaenoidea
- Cossoidea
- Sesioidea
- Choreutoidea
- Tortricoidea
- Urodoidea
- Schreckensteinioidea
- Epermenioidea
- Alucitoidea
- Pterophoroidea
- Obtectomera
  - Whalleyanoidea
  - Immoidea
  - Copromorphoidea
  - Hyblaeoidea
  - Pyraloidea
  - Thyridoidea
  - Macrolepidoptera
    - Mimallonoidea
    - Lasiocampoidea
    - Bombycoidea
    - Noctuoidea
    - Drepanoidea
    - Geometroidea
    - Axioidea
    - Calliduloidea
    - Rhopalocera

The Ditrysia are a natural group or clade of insects in the Lepidopteran order containing both butterflies and moths. They are so named because the female has two distinct sexual openings: one for mating, and the other for laying eggs. About 98% of described species of Lepidoptera belong to Ditrysia. The group can be divided into basal or incertae sedis "micromoths" and the Apoditrysia, which includes mostly larger moths as well as the butterflies. Those with a dorsal heart vessel belong in section Cossina. Others, having a ventral heart vessel belong in section Tineina.

Sources

Kristensen, N. P. and Skalski, A.W. (1999). Phylogeny and paleontology. Pages 7-25 in: Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Part 35. N. P. Kristensen, ed. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York.
Capinera, John, editor (2008), Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd ed., Springer Verlag, New York.