Macrolepidoptera

Macrolepidoptera is a sometime Suborder of Order Lepidoptera, the second-largest Order of the Insects.

The taxon has included the following Superfamilies:

• Bombycoidea -- Moths (in part).
• Drepanoidea -- Depranids.
• Geometroidea -- Measuring worms.
• Hesperioidea -- Skippers.
• Mimallonoidea -- Sack bearers.
• Noctuoidea -- Moths (in part).
• Papilionoidea -- Butterflies
• Sphingoidea -- Sphinx moths.
• Uranioidea -- Epiplemid moths.

See also

• Geometer moth, Gypsy moth, Noctuidae, Silkworm.

External links

• ITIS