Phuphena
Encyclopedia
Phuphena 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
- Phuphena cilix (Druce, 1898)
- Phuphena constricta Dognin, 1912
- Phuphena costata SchausWilliam SchausWilliam Schaus was an American entomologist.-Life:William was son of William Schaus, Sr., a German-immigrant art collector and dealer, proprietor of the Schaus Galleries, and of Margaret Connover....
, 1914 - Phuphena diagona Hampson, 1908
- Phuphena fusipennis Walker, 1858
- Phuphena multilinea Schaus, 1911
- Phuphena parallela (Hampson, 1904)
- Phuphena petrovna (Schaus, 1904)
- Phuphena proseluta Schaus, 1921
- Phuphena subvenata Schaus, 1914
- Phuphena transversa (Schaus, 1894)
- Phuphena tura (Druce, 1889) (syn: Phuphena obliqua (Smith, 1900))
- Phuphena zelotypa Schaus, 1911