灰蝶科中的較上級分類至今仍不穩定,各個亞科、族和亞族都主要由Eliot的文獻記載 (1973, 1992)。要注意的是Eliot在1973年和1992(Eliot in Corbet et al.)年的分類有異,先前的有銀灰蝶亞科、圓灰蝶亞科、雲灰蝶亞科、眼灰蝶亞科、灰蝶亞科、線灰蝶亞科共6個分類[10];後者卻把眼灰蝶和線灰蝶兩個分類歸入灰蝶亞科並各視作一族,以突顯出相對銀灰蝶、圓灰蝶和雲灰蝶亞科牠們相互之有更密切的親緣關係[11],然而這降級改變未有廣泛地被灰蝶研究界認同[12],但1992年的灰蝶亞科分類中指出噩灰蝶族也是其他族的姐妹群,因此 Wahlberg et al. (2005) 將之視作噩灰蝶亞科[6][13]。
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