The Catocalini are a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...

moths Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

in the family Erebidae. Adults of many

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

in the tribe are called underwing moths due to their vividly colored hindwings that are often covered by contrastingly dark, drab forewings.

Taxonomy

The tribe is most closely related to the tribe Audeini, also within the

Erebinae The Erebinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae erected by William Elford Leach in 1815. Erebine moths are found on all continents except Antarctica, but reach their greatest diversity in the tropics. While the exact number of spec ...

Genera

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Archaeopilocornus ''Archaeopilocornus'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It contains only one species, ''Archaeopilocornus lucidus'', which is found in Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially ...

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Catocala ''Catocala'' is a generally Holarctic genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1802. The moths are commonly known as underwing moths or simply underwings. These terms are sometimes used for a ...

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Spiloloma ''Spiloloma'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae. Its only species, ''Spiloloma lunilinea'', the moon-lined moth, is found in eastern and south-central North America. Both the genus and species were first described by Augustus Rad ...

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Ulotrichopus ''Ulotrichopus'' is a genus of moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approxima ...

Former genera

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Artena Artena is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy. It is situated in the northwest of Monti Lepini, in the upper valley of the Sacco River. It is approximately southeast by rail, and direct from Rome. The economy is base ...

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Mecodina ''Mecodina'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. Description Palpi sickle shaped, where the second joint reaching vertex of head. Third joint long and naked. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scale ...

References

Erebinae Moth tribes {{Catocalini-stub