Macroheterocera

 ( Moth Taxonomy ) 

• Mimallonoidea – sack bearers (variously included in basal position or excluded)
• Drepanoidea – drepanids
• Noctuoidea – owlet moths
• Geometroidea – inchworms
• Lasiocampoidea – lappet moths
• Bombycoidea – bombycoid moths

The macroheteroceran superfamilies were previously place in the Macrolepidoptera, but recent molecular studies have failed to recover the Macrolepidoptera as a monophyletic group. The latter grouping also included butterflies (Papilionoidea) and Old World butterfly-moths (Calliduloidea).