Hepialoidea

 The Hepialoidea are the superfamily of "ghost moths" and "swift moths".^[1]

Hepialoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Infraorder:	Exoporia
Superfamily:	Hepialoidea Stephens, 1829
Families
Anomosetidae Neotheoridae Prototheoridae Palaeosetidae Hepialidae
Diversity
67 genera and at least 617 species

FossilsEdit

Fossil Hepialoidea appear to be few.^[2] Prohepialus (possibly Hepialidae) has been described from the about 35-million-year-old Bembridge marls of Isle of Wight.^[3] A mid-Miocene hepialoid fossil is also known from China.^[4]