Pyraloidea
Pyraloidea
Lee Ritenour
<catset>Category="Insects"</catset><catset>Category="Lepidoptera"</catset><table border=1 cellpadding=0 style="position:relative; margin: 0 0 0.5em 1em; border-collapse: collapse; float:right; clear:right; width:200px;"><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style=" background: pink;"><div style="float:right; font-size:70%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">?</div><b> Pyraloidea</b></th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;"><small> No image</small></td></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style=" background: pink;"><b><a href="Scientific classification">Scientific classification</a></b></th></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><td> <table cellpadding=2 style="margin:0 auto; text-align:left; background:none;"><tr valign=top><td>Kingdom:</td><td><a href="Animal">Animalia</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Phylum:</td><td><a href="Arthropod">Arthropoda</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Class:</td><td><a href="Insect">Insecta</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Order:</td><td><a href="Lepidoptera">Lepidoptera</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Superfamily:</td><td><b>Pyraloidea</b></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style=" background: pink;"><b><a href="Lepidopteran diversity">Diversity</a></b></th></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><td>roughly 16,000 species</td></tr></table><p><b>Pyraloidea</b> is the superfamily of pyraloids and plume moths.<h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Sources</h2><ul> <li><i>Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders</i>, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002 </ul>