- Dioptinae
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Dioptinae 
Dioptis cyma, the type species of the tribe Dioptini 
Josia ligula, the type species of the tribe Josiini Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera (unranked): Macrolepidoptera Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: Notodontidae Subfamily: Dioptinae
Walker, 1862Genera See text
Dioptinae is a subfamily of the moth family Notodontidae.
The Dioptinae are an almost exclusively neotropical group of day-flying moths, many of which exhibit bright wing coloration and are involved in mimicry rings with butterflies (especially Ithomiini) and moths of the Sterrhinae subfamily and Arctiidae family.
Taxonomy
The subfamily was formerly placed in a separate family (Dioptidae). Furthermore, the tribe Josiini has been treated as a family (Josiidae) by Piepers & Snellen in 1900 and as a subfamily (Josiinae) by Kiriakoff in 1950.
Genera
- Tribe Josiini Miller & Otero, 1994
- Tribe Dioptini Minet, 1983
- Anticoreura
- Argentala
- Brachyglene
- Cacolyces
- Chrysoglossa
- Cleptophasia
- Dioptis
- Dolophrosyne
- Erbessa
- Eremonidia
- Euchontha
- Hadesina
- Isostyla
- Momonipta
- Monocreaga
- Nebulosa
- Oricia
- Pareuchontha
- Phaeochlaena
- Phanoptis
- Phryganidia
- Pikroprion
- Polypoetes
- Pseudoricia
- Sagittala
- Scotura
- Scoturopsis
- Stenoplastis
- Tithraustes
- Xenomigia
- Xenorma
- Xenormicola
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