Plusiodonta
Encyclopedia
Plusiodonta 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
- Plusiodonta aborta Dognin, 1910
- Plusiodonta achalcea Hampson, 1926
- Plusiodonta amado Barnes, 1907 (syn: Plusiodonta suffusa Hill, 1924 )
- Plusiodonta arctipennis Butler, 1886
- Plusiodonta auripicta Moore, 1882
- Plusiodonta basirhabdota Hampson, 1926
- Plusiodonta casta Butler, 1878
- Plusiodonta chalcomera Hampson, 1926
- Plusiodonta clavifera Walker, 1868
- Plusiodonta cobaltina Viette, 1956
- Plusiodonta coelonota Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844
- Plusiodonta commoda Walker, 1865
- Plusiodonta compressipalpisPlusiodonta compressipalpisThe Moonseed Moth is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Minnesota, extreme southern Canada and Connecticut, south to northern Florida and Texas....
Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852 - Plusiodonta cupristria Kaye, 1922
- Plusiodonta dimorpha Robinson, 1975
- Plusiodonta effulgens Edwards, 1884
- Plusiodonta euchalcia Hampson, 1926
- Plusiodonta excavata Guenée, 1862
- Plusiodonta gueneei Viette, 1968
- Plusiodonta incitans Walker, 1857
- Plusiodonta ionochrota Hampson, 1926
- Plusiodonta macra Hampson, 1926
- Plusiodonta malagassy Viette, 1968
- Plusiodonta megista Hampson, 1926
- Plusiodonta miranda Schaus, 1911
- Plusiodonta multicolora Bethune-Baker, 1906
- Plusiodonta natalensis Walker, 1865
- Plusiodonta nictites Hampson, 1902
- Plusiodonta nitissima Schaus, 1911
- Plusiodonta repellens Walker, 1857
- Plusiodonta speciosissima Holland, 1894
- Plusiodonta stimulans Walker, 1857
- Plusiodonta theresae Holloway, 1979
- Plusiodonta thomae Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852
- Plusiodonta tripuncta Bethune-Baker, 1906
- Plusiodonta wahlbergi Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874