Hecatera
Encyclopedia
Hecatera is a moth
genus
in the family
Noctuidae
.
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...
genus
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...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by 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....
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Species
- Hecatera agrapha (Boursin, 1960)
- Hecatera bicolorata – Broad-barred WhiteBroad-barred WhiteThe Broad-barred White is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe and is also found in Turkey, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Kirghizia, Tajikistan, western Siberia and China....
(Hufnagel, 1766) - Hecatera cappaHecatera cappaHecatera cappa is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Morocco, Algeria, central and south-eastern Europe, Turkey, Transcaucasia, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran and central Asia....
(Hübner, [1809]) - Hecatera confusa (Sugi, 1982)
- Hecatera confusa Leech, 1900
- Hecatera constantialis (Boursin, 1960)
- Hecatera corsica (Rambur, 1832)
- Hecatera deserticola (Staudinger, 1879)
- Hecatera digramme (Fischer von Waldheim, 1820)
- Hecatera disjuncta Hacker & Fibiger, 1999
- Hecatera dysodeaHecatera dysodeaThe Small Ranunculus is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found in Europe, primarily in Central Europe and Southern Europe and from Algeria and Morocco up to Turkestan. It is an introduced species in North America, where it was first found in Utah in 1998 and Oregon in 2005.The wingspan is...
– Small Ranunculus (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) - Hecatera filipjevi (Draudt, 1934)
- Hecatera fixseniHecatera fixseniHecatera fixseni is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Egypt, Israel, Armenia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan....
(Christoph, 1882) - Hecatera maderae (Bethune-Baker, 1891)
- Hecatera mirabilis (Staudinger, 1888)
- Hecatera rhodocharis (Brandt, 1938)
- Hecatera weissiHecatera weissiHecatera weissi is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia....
(Draudt, 1934)
External links
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=noctuidae&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&SUBFAMILY=&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&TRIBE=&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&SUBTRIBE=&GENUSqtype=starts+with&GENUS=&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&AUTHOR=&YEARqtype=equals&YEAR=&sort=GENUSNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database]