''Cabralia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s of the family
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family (biology), family of moths. Taxonomically, they are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly ...
, containing only a single species, ''Cabralia trifasciata''; a second species (''judsoni'') was historically misclassified, but in 2010 was determined to belong to the genus ''
Rhosus Rhosus may refer to:
Places and jurisdictions
* Arsuz (Arsûs), formerly known as Rhosus, a coastal town in Hatay Province, Asian Turkey,
** the former Diocese of Rhosus, with see in the above city in Cilicia Secunda, now a Latin Catholic titu ...
'' in the subfamily
Agaristinae
Agaristinae is one of the larger subfamilies of moths in the family Noctuidae. The subfamily was erected by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833. Its internal phylogeny
A phylogenetic tree or phylogeny is a graphical representation which shows the ...
, leaving ''C. trifasciata'' as the sole remaining member of its genus.
References
Monotypic moth genera
Calpinae
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