Blasticorhinus
Encyclopedia
Blasticorhinus is a genus
of moth
s of the Noctuidae
family.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s of the Noctuidae
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly-built moths that includes more than 35,000 known species out of possibly 100,000 total, in more than 4,200 genera. They constitute the largest family in the Lepidoptera....
family.
Selected species
- Blasticorhinus aurantiaca (Holland, 1894)
- Blasticorhinus bifasciata (Wileman, 1914)
- Blasticorhinus cymasius Hampson, 1926
- Blasticorhinus decernens (Walker, 1863)
- Blasticorhinus discipuncta (Holland, 1894)
- Blasticorhinus enervis (Swinhoe, 1890)
- Blasticorhinus epixandus Rothschild, 1920
- Blasticorhinus hampsoni (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
- Blasticorhinus hoenei Berio, 1956
- Blasticorhinus kanshireiensis (Wileman, 1914)
- Blasticorhinus otophora (Hampson, 1894)
- Blasticorhinus oxydata (Swinhoe, 1895)
- Blasticorhinus rivulosaBlasticorhinus rivulosaBlasticorhinus rivulosa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Japan and Taiwan....
(Walker, 1865) - Blasticorhinus trichopoda Hampson, 1926
- Blasticorhinus ussuriensisBlasticorhinus ussuriensisBlasticorhinus ussuriensis is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Taiwan, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East.The wingspan is 54-58 mm....
(Bremer, 1861) - Blasticorhinus waelbroecki (Strand, 1918)