![]() | 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, so here we adhere to this newer 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 decorata
Balantiucha leucocephala
Balantiucha mutans
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(updated 4 April 2015, 4 July 2023)