Doidae

Doidae is a small family of Lepidoptera with an exclusively New World distribution, with species occurring in Central America, the south-western United States, and northern South America.

Doidae
Doa raspa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Drepanoidea
Family:	Doidae Donahue & Brown, 1987
Genera
See text

Taxonomical placement

Doidae was elevated to family rank by Julian P. Donahue and John W. Brown in 1987.^[1] They have a complex taxonomical history, and have previously been placed in Geometridae, Arctiidae, Lymantriidae and Dioptidae among several other families.^[2][3] As a family, Doidae was formerly included in superfamily Noctuoidea, but was transferred to the Drepanoidea in 2011 by van Nieukerken et al.^[1]

Genera and species

As of May 2024^[update], the Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists seven species in two genera for Doidae:^[4]

• Genus Doa Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 - type genus^[1]
  • Doa ampla (Grote, 1878) - South-western US, Mexico^[5]
  • Doa cubana Schaus, 1906 - Cuba^[6]
  • Doa dora Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 - Mexico,^[7] California^[8]
  • Doa raspa Druce, 1894 - Mexico,^[9] Belize^[10]
  • Doa translucida Dognin, 1910 - Colombia^[11]

• Genus Leuculodes Dyar, 1903
  • Leuculodes lacteolaria Hulst, 1896
  • Leuculodes lephassa Druce, 1897