| Higher taxa: | Erebidae (family)/ 
                
                
                Boletobiinae (subfamily)/ 
                
                
                Araeopteronini (tribe)/ | 
                | Status: | Accepted | 
                | Authorship: | Fibiger, 2005 | 
                | Citation: | Subfamily Araeopteroninae Fibiger, subfamily nov. | 
                
                    | Taxon remarks: | Type genus: Araeopteron Hampson, 1893. [In footnote 63 on p. 109 treated as a tribe]. | 
                
                
                    | Publication: | Fibiger M. & Hacker H. H. 2005. Systematic list of the Noctuoidea of Europe (Notodontidae), Nolidae, Arctiidae, Lymantriidae, Erebidae, Micronoctuidae, and Noctuidae). | 
                    | Journal: | Esperiana | 
                    | Volume: | 11 | 
                    | Issue: |  | 
                    | Pagination: | 25, 109 |