Further progress on the phylogeny of Noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) using an expanded gene sample

Major progress has been made recently toward resolving the phylogeny of N octuoidea, the largest superfamily of L epidoptera. However, numerous questions and weakly supported nodes remain. In this paper we independently check and extend the main findings of multiple recent authors by performing maximum‐likelihood analyses of 5–19 genes (6.7–18.6 kb) in 74 noctuoids representing all the families and a majority of the subfamilies. Our results...