Where does “Noctuinae” come from?
Noctuinae (Translingual) comes from Translingual Noctua, from Latin Noctua, from Latin *noctūus, from Latin noctu, from Latin Nox, from Proto-Italic nokts, from Proto-Indo-European nókʷts, from Proto-Indo-European negʷ- — bare, naked.
Ancestry of “Noctuinae”, step by step