Noctuidae sunt familialepidopterorum robustorum quae plus quam 35 000 specierum agnotarum ex fortasse 100 00 comprehendit, in plus quam 4200 generibus digestarum. Quae maxima familia inter lepidoptera est.
Distributio est cosmopolita, 1450 fere speciebus in Europa inventis.[1][2][3]
Plurimis sunt alae anteriores cinereae, coloribus claris carentes, sed nonnullis sunt alae posteriores vividis. Variationes sexuum plerumque sunt paucae. Paene omnes nocte volant, paeneque semper a luce vehementer attrahuntur; multae etiam a saccharo et floribusnectar plenis attrahuntur.
Divisio per subfamilias et numerus subfamiliarum non idonei sunt et aliquantulum in variis rationibus taxinomicis variant. Nonnulla genera per subfamilias certo nondum digeruntur
↑M. Fibiger 1990: Noctuinae 1: Noctuidae Europaeae 1 (Dania: Sorø).
↑M. Fibiger, 1993: Noctuinae 2: Noctuidae Europaeae 2 (Dania: Sorø).
↑M. Fibiger, 1997: Noctuinae 3: Noctuidae Europaeae 3 (Dania: Sorø).
↑Goerlitz, ter Hofstede, Zeale, Jones, et Holderied 2010; Ratcliffe, Fullard, Arthur, et Hoy 2009; Roeder 1974; Surlykke 1984.
↑Weller, S. J., Pashley, D. P., Martin, J. A., et Constable, J. L. (1994). "Phylogeny of noctuoid moths and the utility of combining independent nuclear and mitochondrial genes". Systematic Biology (Systematic Biology, Vol. 43, No. 2) 43 (43): 194–211.
↑Andrew Mitchell, Charles Mitter, Jerome C. Regier (2006). "Systematics and evolution of the cutworm moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): evidence from two protein-coding nuclear genes". Systematic Entomology1 (31): 21–46abstract online.
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