Brenthiinae Heppner, 1981

Sohn, Jae-Cheon, 2022, Three species of Choreutidae (Lepidoptera) new to Korea with the first record of Brenthiinae for the country, Journal of Species Research 11 (3), pp. 202-207 : 205

Subfamily Brenthiinae Heppner, 1981

The adults are commonly referred to as peacock moths, because of the presence of ocelli along the marginal area of forewings. This group is distinguished from the subfamily Choreutinae in the presence of the rounded forewings and the absence of the chorda in the forewing venation. These differences suggested their status as a separate subfamily, Brenthiinae ( Heppner and Duckworth, 1981) . In the other, Dugdale et al. (1999) pointed out the paraphyletic relationships between Choreutinae and Brenthiinae . A recent molecular phylogenetic study supported the monophylies of two subfamilies ( Rota, 2011). Brenthiinae comprises two genera and 97 species mainly occurring in tropics ( Liu et al., 2016). This subfamily is recorded for the first time from Korea.