Amphipoea Chovdica
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''Amphipoea'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae, found in the Holarctic realm.


Species

* ''Amphipoea americana'' Speyer, 1875 – American ear moth * ''Amphipoea asiatica'' (Burrows, 1911) * ''Amphipoea aslanbeki'' Ronkay & Herczig, 1991 * ''Amphipoea bifurcata'' Gyulai & Ronkay, 1994 * ''Amphipoea burrowsi'' (Chapman, 1912) * ''Amphipoea butleri'' (Leech, 1900) * ''Amphipoea chovdica'' Gyulai, 1989 * ''Amphipoea cottlei'' (McDunnough, 1948) * ''Amphipoea crinanensis'' (Burrows, 1908) – Crinan ear * ''Amphipoea cuneata'' Gyulai & Ronkay, 1998 * ''Amphipoea distincta'' (Warren, 1911) * ''Amphipoea erepta'' (Grote, 1881) * ''Amphipoea fucosa'' (Freyer, 1830) – saltern ear moth * ''Amphipoea interoceanica'' (Smith, 1899) – interoceanic ear moth * ''Amphipoea keiferi'' (Benjamin, 1935) * ''Amphipoea lucens'' (Freyer, 1845)– large ear moth * ''Amphipoea lunata'' (Smith, 1891) * ''Amphipoea malaisei'' (Nordström, 1931) * ''Amphipoea maryamae'' Zahiri & Fibiger, 2006 * ''Amphipoea ochreola'' (Staudinger, 1882) * ''Amphipoea oculea'' (Linnaeus, 1761) – ear moth * ''Amphipoea pacifica'' (Smith, 1899) * ''Amphipoea rufibrunnea'' (Heydemann, 1942) * ''Amphipoea senilis'' (Smith, 1892) (syn: ''Amphipoea flavostigma'' (Barnes & Benjamin, 1924)) * ''Amphipoea szabokyi'' Gyulai & Ronkay, 1990 * ''Amphipoea ussuriensis'' (Petersen, 1914)


Former species

* ''Amphipoea velata'' is now ''Loscopia velata'' (Walker, 1865)


Taxonomy

The genus ''Amphipoea'' was raised by the Swedish Anatomy, anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820. ''Amphipoea'' refers to ''Amphi'' – round and ''poa'' – grass; i.e. the habitat of the moths.


References


External links


''Amphipoea''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
* Zahiri, R. & Fibiger, M. (2006) ''Zootaxa'' 1244: 33-39 Apameini Noctuoidea genera Taxa named by Gustaf Johan Billberg {{Apameini-stub