Fishia
Encyclopedia
Fishia 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
- Fishia connecta (Smith, 1894)
- Fishia discors (Grote, 1881) (syn: Fishia evelina (French, 1888), Fishia hanhami Smith, 1909)
- Fishia dispar (Smith, 1900)
- Fishia illocataFishia illocataThe Wandering Brocade is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from coast to coast in the North America. It is abundant in the wet coastal forests and in wet conifer forests of the northern Rocky Mountains....
(Walker, 1857) - Fishia yosemitae (Grote, 1873) (syn: Fishia enthea Grote, 1877, Fishia tortilis (Grote, 1880), Fishia betsia Smith, 1905, Fishia instruta Smith, 1910)