![]() | Swallowtail Moths GEOMETROIDEA | ![]() | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
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Many of the URANIIDAE fly in daylight hours, and the family was put in its own separate superfamily URANIOIDEA. More recent DNA studies show an affiliation with moths in GEOMETRIDAE which typically fly at night. So some taxonomists place the URANIIDAE in the superfamily GEOMETROIDEA, but here we adhere to the older system.
Some Australian representatives of URANIIDAE, including the 32 named species, are :
Acropteris nanula
Acropteris teriadata
Acropteris species
Alcides metaurus : Zodiac Moth
Balantiucha cyclocrossa
Balantiucha leucocephala
Balantiucha mutans
Phazaca decorata
Phazaca interrupta
Phazaca species
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(updated 4 April 2015, 13 October 2018, 5 April 2019, 8 June 2020, 20 February 2022)