Noctuoidea is a superfamily of Lepidoptera. There are 41248 species of Noctuoidea, in 5467 genera and 6 families. This superfamily has been around since the oligocene epoch. They are nocturnal.
Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
Definition: A light sensing organ composed of multiple ommatidia, visual units consisting of a limited number of rhabdomeric photoreceptor cells, cornea-secreting epithelial cells, interommatidial pigment cells, and sometimes crystalline cone cells