Cardepia
Encyclopedia
Cardepia 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.
Species
- Cardepia affinisCardepia affinisCardepia affinis is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in south-western Europe, North Africa, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Sinai in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and southern Iran....
Rothschild, 1913 - Cardepia arenaria (Hampson, 1905)
- Cardepia arenbergeri Pinker, 1974
- Cardepia dardistana Boursin, 1967
- Cardepia halophila Hacker, 1998
- Cardepia hartigi Parenzan, 1981
- Cardepia helix Boursin, 1962
- Cardepia irrisoria (Erschoff, 1874)
- Cardepia kaszabi Sukhareva & Varga, 1973
- Cardepia legraini Hacker, 1998
- Cardepia martoni Hacker, 1998
- Cardepia mixta (Pagenstecher, 1907)
- Cardepia oleagina Hacker, 1998
- Cardepia sociabilisCardepia sociabilisCardepia sociabilis is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Morocco to Chad through southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Syria, the Arabian Peninsula to India.Adults are on wing from March to November...
(Graslin, 1850)