Kitching Ian J, Rougerie Rodolphe, Zwick Andreas, Hamilton Chris A, St Laurent Ryan A, Naumann Stefan, Ballesteros Mejia Liliana, Kawahara Akito Y
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Paris, France.
Biodivers Data J. 2018 Feb 12(6):e22236. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. eCollection 2018.
Bombycoidea is an ecologically diverse and speciose superfamily of Lepidoptera. The superfamily includes many model organisms, but the taxonomy and classification of the superfamily has remained largely in disarray. Here we present a global checklist of Bombycoidea. Following Zwick (2008) and Zwick et al. (2011), ten families are recognized: Anthelidae, Apatelodidae, Bombycidae, Brahmaeidae, Carthaeidae, Endromidae, Eupterotidae, Phiditiidae, Saturniidae and Sphingidae. The former families Lemoniidae and Mirinidae are included within Brahmaeidae and Endromidae respectively. The former bombycid subfamilies Oberthueriinae and Prismostictinae are also treated as synonyms of Endromidae, and the former bombycine subfamilies Apatelodinae and Phitditiinae are treated as families.
This checklist represents the first effort to synthesize the current taxonomic treatment of the entire superfamily. It includes 12,159 names and references to their authors, and it accounts for the recent burst in species and subspecies descriptions within family Saturniidae (ca. 1,500 within the past 10 years) and to a lesser extent in Sphingidae (ca. 250 species over the same period). The changes to the higher classification of Saturniidae proposed by Nässig et al. (2015) are rejected as premature and unnecessary. The new tribes, subtribes and genera described by Cooper (2002) are here treated as junior synonyms. We also present a new higher classification of Sphingidae, based on Kawahara et al. (2009), Barber and Kawahara (2013) and a more recent phylogenomic study by Breinholt et al. (2017), as well as a reviewed genus and species level classification, as documented by Kitching (2018).
蚕蛾总科是鳞翅目中一个生态多样且物种丰富的超科。该超科包含许多模式生物，但其分类学和分类情况在很大程度上仍处于混乱状态。在此，我们呈现一份蚕蛾总科的全球名录。依据茨维克（2008年）以及茨维克等人（2011年）的研究，确认了十个科：蚁蛾科、阿帕透蛾科、蚕蛾科、天蚕蛾科、卡尔泰蛾科、大蚕蛾科、大斑蛾科、菲蒂蛾科、天蚕蛾科和天蛾科。之前的柠檬蛾科和米瑞蛾科分别被归入天蚕蛾科和大蚕蛾科。之前蚕蛾科的奥伯图蛾亚科和棱纹蛾亚科也被视为大蚕蛾科的同义词，之前蚕蛾亚科的阿帕透蛾亚科和菲蒂蛾亚科被视为独立的科。
本名录是首次对整个超科当前分类处理进行综合的成果。它包含12,159个名称及其作者的参考文献，涵盖了近期天蚕蛾科（过去10年约1500种）物种和亚种描述的激增情况，以及在较小程度上天蛾科（同期约250种）的此类情况。纳西格等人（2015年）提出的天蚕蛾科高级分类变动被认为为时过早且不必要而被否决。库珀（2002年）描述的新族、亚族和属在此被视为次异名。我们还依据川原等人（2009年）、巴伯和川原（2013年）以及布雷因霍尔特等人（2017年）最近的系统发育基因组学研究，呈现了天蛾科新的高级分类，以及如基钦（2018年）所记录的经过修订的属和种水平分类。
